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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
Status Anxiety
You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.
Joy: The Happiness That Comes from Within
Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.
The Zurau Aphorisms (20)
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois
Society is composed of two great classes, those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves
Man is a social animal
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms
Society rests upon conscience and not upon science
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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