Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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Without music life would be a mistake.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.