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One is punished best for one's virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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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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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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One hears - one does not seek one takes - one does not ask who gives.
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When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.
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It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
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When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
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The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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