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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
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Humility has the toughest hide.
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What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.
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To have and to want more that is life.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
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This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.