"I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people."
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"If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago."
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"Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine."
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"I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did."
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"One has to know the size of one's stomach."
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"Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them."
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"Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!"
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"Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps."
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"We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters."
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"Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily."
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"Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under."
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"Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned."
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"Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things."
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"Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve."
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"Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect."
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"What is it that you love in others?--My hopes."
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"Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence."
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"I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going."
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"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water."
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"Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost."
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