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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is it that you love in others? – My hopes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
Friedrich Nietzsche
