"What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity."
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"Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself."
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"Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly."
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"I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive."
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"Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness."
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"To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them."
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"I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going."
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"Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite."
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"Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit."
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"The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively."
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"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
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"Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease."
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"We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength."
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"One who has a why can endure anyhow."
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"Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity."
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"Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?"
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"We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new."
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"Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness."
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"Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style."
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"One does not kill by anger but by laughter."
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