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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
Frédéric Nietzsche
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions they cease to be mind.
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Some rule out of a lust for ruling others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
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