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But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
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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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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.
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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
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We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
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Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
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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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"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
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If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?