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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish.
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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.
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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
Friedrich Nietzsche