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Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.