"The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise."
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"Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God."
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"But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me."
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"In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose."
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"Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!"
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"It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato."
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"Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come."
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"History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood."
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"THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds."
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"The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school."
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"So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence."
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"Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them."
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"Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy."
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"Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth."
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"Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal."
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"To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom."
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"Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected."
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"I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."
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"Master-morality and Slave-morality."
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"Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!""
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