By Losing Your Goal, You Have Lost

Giving Style” To One’s Character - A Great And Rare Art! It Is Exercised By Those Who See All The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Their Own Natures And Then Comprehend Them In An Artistic Plan Until Everything Appears As Art And Reason And Even Weakness Delights The Eye.

It Is A Self-deception Of Philosophers And Moralists To Imagine That They Escape Decadence By Opposing It. That Is Beyond Their Will; And, However Little They Acknowledge It, One Later Discovers That They Were Among The Most Powerful Promoters Of Decadence.

Original Minds Are Not Distinguished By Being The First To See A New Thing, But Instead By Seeing The Old, Familiar Thing That Is Over-looked As Something New.

One Has To Pay Dearly For Immortality; One Has To Die Several Times While One Is Still Alive.

Man Demands Truth And Fulfills This Demand In Moral Intercourse With Other Men; This Is The Basis Of All Social Life. One Anticipates The Unpleasant Consequences Of Reciprocal Lying. From This There Arises The Duty Of Truth. We Permit Epic Poets To Lie Because We Expect No Detrimental Consequences In This Case. Thus The Lie Is Permitted Where It Is Considered Something Pleasant. Assuming That It Does No Harm, The Lie Is Beautiful And Charming.