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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
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What is good? ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married
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Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.
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