"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

#Fall Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Loss Quotes

“I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.”
“A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.”
“There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.”
“The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles.”
“Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.”
“And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?”
“The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.43, Taylor & Francis
“The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.”

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