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294 human heart, betraying that all that is superfluous and immoderate is the sea wherein the soul of man delights to float. —May he, who wishes to kill his opponent, first consider whether he will not in so doing immortalize him to himself. —If our character rebels against the trutlı which we have to say,—as happens very often,— we behave in a way as though we clumsily uttered an untruth, and thus we arouse suspicion. —Many characters have but the one alternative left: either to become public evil-doers or secret mourners. —Illness implies an untimely approach of old age, of ugliness and of pessimistic opinions, which fall under the same cognisance. —It is the awkward and the timid who frequently become murderers: they do not understand