"One is punished best for one's virtues."
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Category: Virtue
"Honest towards ourselves and towards anyone else who is our friend; brave towards the enemy; magnanimous towards the defeated; polite--always: this is how the four cardinal virtues want us to act."
"We place no particular value upon the possession of a virtue until we detect its complete absence in our adversary."
"In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motives of their actions."
Category: Hypocrisy
"Never to talk about ourselves is a very noble piece of hypocrisy."
"Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite."
"As soon as we exceed average human goodness by even a single step, our actions arouse suspicion. Virtue stands steadily "in the middle."
Category: Moderation
"Good and evil are God's prejudices"Msaid the serpent."
Category: Prejudice
"Every word is a prejudice."
"So cold, so icy that one burns one's fingers on him! Every hand that touches him pulls away in fright!--And for that very reason, some take him to be glowing hot."
Category: Passion
"From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions."
"Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people."
Category: Religion
"As soon as a religion comes to dominate, it has as its opponents all those who would have been its earliest disciples."
"Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods."
"We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses."
Category: Courtesy
"The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous."
"We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes."
Category: Immortality
"War has always been the great wisdom of all those spirits who have grown too inward, too deep; its healing power lies even in the wound."
Category: War
"Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel."
"In war personal revenge maintains its silence."
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