Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.
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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.
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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
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I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
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Every past is worth condemning.
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
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In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.
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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.