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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.
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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
Friedrich Nietzsche