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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

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Life without music is no life at all.

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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

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The final reward of the dead - to die no more

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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

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One has to know the size of one's stomach.

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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

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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.

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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

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