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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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