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[Lady 3Jane]

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

-Friedrich Nietzsche  

[Lady 3Jane]

"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."

-Confucius  

[Lady 3Jane]

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

-Friedrich Nietzsche  

[Lady 3Jane]

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."

-Confucius  

[Lady 3Jane]

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

-Friedrich Nietzsche  

[Lady 3Jane]

"The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man."

-Confucius  

[Lady 3Jane]

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

-Friedrich Nietzsche  

[Lady 3Jane]

"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress."

-Confucius  

[Lady 3Jane]

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

-Friedrich Nietzsche  

[Lady 3Jane]

"There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness."

-Confucius  

[Lady 3Jane]

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

-Friedrich Nietzsche  

[Lady 3Jane]

"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame."

-Confucius  

[Lady 3Jane]

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

-Friedrich Nietzsche  

[Lady 3Jane]

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."

-George Carlin  

[Lady 3Jane]

"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right."

-Friedrich Nietzsche