"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself."
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"There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude."
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"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
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"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises."
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"Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious."
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"That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation."
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"Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!"
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"Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert."
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"Righteousness exalteth a nation."
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"Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!"
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"I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that."
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"Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes."
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"Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power."
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"For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment."
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"Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true."
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"The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions."
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"Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss."
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"He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case."
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"I am one thing, my writings are another."
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