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"Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests."
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"The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies."
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"He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves."
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"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."
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"In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless."
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"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."
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"We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people."
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"The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day."
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"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."
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"There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term."
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"You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that."
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"A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy."
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"A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on."
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"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."
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"The parasites live where the great have little secret sores."
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"That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth."
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"Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed."
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"The inability to lie is far from the love of truth."
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"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"
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