"He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!"
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"Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever."
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"That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts."
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"Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence."
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"Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you."
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"I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?"
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"Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it."
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"Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it."
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"I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?"
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"What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment."
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"Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers."
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"We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?"
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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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"The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves."
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"Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal."
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"And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire."
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"Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings."
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"With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring."
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"Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world."
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"When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness."
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