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If one wishes to praiseat all,it is a delicate and at the
same time a noble self-control, to praiseonlywhere one does
not "
agree in fact one would praiseoneself, which
is contrary to "
good taste: self-control, to be sure, which
offers excellent opportunityand provocationto constant misundersta
To be able to allow oneself this veritable
luxuryof taste and morality,one must not live among intellect
imbeciles, but rather among men whose misunderstandings
and mistakes amuse by their refinement "
one
will have to pay dearlyfor it!" "He praisesme, therefore
he acknowledgesme to be "
right" this asinine method of
inference spoilshalf of the life of us recluses,for it brings
the asses into our neighbourhoodand friendship.
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To live in a vast and proud tranquillity; always beyond
...
To
have, or not to have,one's emotions,one's
For and Against,accordingto choice;to lower oneself to
them for hours;to seat oneself on them as upon horses,and
often as upon asses:
"
one must know how to make use
of their stupidityas well as of their fire. To conserve
one's three hundred foregrounds;also one's black spectacles:
for there are circumstances when nobody must look into
our eyes,
stillless into our "motives." And to choose for
company that roguishand cheerful vice, politeness.And
to remain master of one's four virtues, courage, insight,sympathy,
and solitude. For solitude is a virtue with us, as a
sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the
contact of man and man
"
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society" it must be unavoid-