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One must see there the living forces that demand to be expended, and we must act.

— Jean-Marie Guyau

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The only means of being great in life is having the consciousness that you will not retreat before death.

For what idea, for what person would I be ready to risk my life?

The future is not what is coming at us, but what we are headed for.

The purely selfish happiness of certain Epicureans is a chimera, an abstraction, an impossibility; the true human pleasures are all more or less social. Pure egoism, rather than being an affirmation of the self, is a mutilation of the self.

Outline of a Morality Without Obligation or Sanction (1885)

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