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Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

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Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

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The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

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Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

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