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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.
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Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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The lie is a condition of life.
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.
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One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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