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A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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Beware of spitting against the wind!
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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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Man must become better and more evil.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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Aus der Erfahrung. - Die Unvernunft einer Sache ist kein Grund gegen ihr Dasein, vielmehr eine Bedingung desselben.
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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.