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At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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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.
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
Friedrich Nietzsche