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“Obedience and lawMthat is what one hears in all moral sentiments. But caprice and freedom might yet be the last sound that morality makes in the end.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“This teaching is not practical in the sense in which the New Testament is. It is not always sound sense in practice. The Brahman never proposes courageously to assault evil, but patiently to starve it out. His active faculties are paralyzed by the idea of caste, of impassable limits of destiny and the tyranny of time.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.”
—Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (17301809)
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