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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
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The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
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All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
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Success has always been a great liar.
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Faith is the path of least resistance.
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Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
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Es sind im asketischen Ideale so viele Brücken zur Unabhängigkeit angezeigt, dass ein Philosoph nicht ohne ein innerliches Frohlocken und Händeklatschen die Geschichte aller jener Entschlossnen zu hören vermag, welche eines Tages Nein sagten zu aller Unfreiheit und in irgend eine Wüste giengen.
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
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The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.
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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
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Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.
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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.