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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

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When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

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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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Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

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One is punished best for one's virtues.

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

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As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

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