"A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral."
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"[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust."
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"In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss."
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"The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil."
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"Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside"
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"I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance."
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"And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values."
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"Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you."
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"The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us."
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"As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness."
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"When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice."
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"“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?"
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"For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds."
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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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"For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil."
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"Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements."
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"When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness."
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"Thinking evil is making evil."
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"But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more."
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"What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal."
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