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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

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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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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

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Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

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If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

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