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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
Friedrich Nietzsche
