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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
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Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
Source: Dracula (1897) Professor Abraham Van Helsing to Dr. John Seward
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