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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

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This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

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In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

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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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Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

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One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

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