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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
