Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
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It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.
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Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
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I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of Borgia. I have tried to be other than I am. And I have failed. And If I have failed you in the process, I am truly sorry.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
