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

— Jean-Marie Guyau

Le futur n'est pas ce qui vient vers nous, mais ce vers quoi nous allons

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

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

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

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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