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We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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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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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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.
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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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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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
Friedrich Nietzsche
