"Humility has the toughest hide."
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"To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil."
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"Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators."
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"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile."
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"Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out."
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"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement."
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"Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy."
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"It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters."
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"Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight."
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"Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil."
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"Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him."
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"Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
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"If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts"
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"Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities."
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"My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously."
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"Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath."
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"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."
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"It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness ."
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"We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint."
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"Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls."
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