"To the mean all becomes mean."
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"He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap"
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"I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights."
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"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."
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"To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness."
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"I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh."
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"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life."
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"If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him."
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"Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?"
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"Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
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"Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability."
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"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
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"Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm."
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"How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value."
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"Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us."
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"Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave."
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"The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man."
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"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver."
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"Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation."
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"Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself."
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