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“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (18741965)
“As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousnessthere can be no doubt of thatmorality will gradually perish now: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europethe most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of all spectacles.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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