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"You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!"
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
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"Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking."
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"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
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"One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed."
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"Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell."
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"Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect."
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"Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself."
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"In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being."
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"If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed ."
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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
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"Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary."
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"It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself."
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"There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice."
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"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."
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"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
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"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity."
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"Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing."
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"Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you."
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