"Every profound spirit needs a mask."
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"The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."."
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"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you."
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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
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"The final reward of the dead - to die no more"
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"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance."
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"What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon."
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
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"Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."
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"Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty."
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"The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison."
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"However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected."
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"We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us."
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"What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses."
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"Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government."
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"At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation."
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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
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"That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much."
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"That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force."
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
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