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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescripti...more

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life...more

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What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth ...more

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.