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Righteousness exalteth a nation. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Everything ponderous, viscous, and solemnly clumsy, all long-winded and boring types of style are developed in profuse variety among Germans. View quote
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that! View quote
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. View quote
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. View quote
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I am one thing, my writings are another. View quote
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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind. View quote
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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent. View quote
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. View quote
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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us. View quote
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The masters have been done away with the morality of the common man has triumphed. View quote
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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. View quote
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them. View quote
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions. View quote
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. View quote
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Beggars. . . should be entirely abolished Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. View quote
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The pure soul is a pure lie. View quote
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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. View quote
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. View quote
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait and both without impatience they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. View quote
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When Zarathustra was alone ... he said to his heart 'Could it be possible This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead' View quote
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Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. View quote
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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. View quote
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