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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
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Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
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When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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