Quote #57

One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.

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  2. Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
  3. Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
  4. It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to s…
  5. We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.
  6. He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance…
  7. It is true that there are men who, on the approach of severe pain, hear the very opposite call of command, and never appear more proud, mor…
  8. He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

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