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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

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The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

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We are all afraid of the truth.

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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

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I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

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Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

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If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

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At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

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