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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Frîdrîk Nîtşe
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Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
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no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any
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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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