Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
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A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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Only sick music makes money today.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!