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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
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There is always some madness in love.
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Principle of Christian love: it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
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State, I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked state, where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked state, where they all call their slow suicide-life.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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This world is the will to power and nothing besides!
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief
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