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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
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