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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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