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Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
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At heart I am a warrior.
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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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.
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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.
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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
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But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.
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All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
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Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?
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We 'conserve' nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means 'liberal'; we do not work for 'progress'; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about 'equal rights,' 'a free society,' 'no more masters and no servants' has no allure for us.
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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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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
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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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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.