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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
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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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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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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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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.
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Love forgives the lover even his lust.
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I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
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Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
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Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?
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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.
Friedrich Nietzsche