"The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."
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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
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"One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence."
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"Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher."
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"We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses."
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"Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up."
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"Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment."
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"A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?"
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"I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else."
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""Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?"
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"The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising."
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"The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world."
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"At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite."
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"The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it."
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"A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity."
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"Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?"
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"O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!"
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"Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come."
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"To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields."
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"Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!"
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