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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

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I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

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The doer alone learneth.

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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

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I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

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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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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

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