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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' ...more

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

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To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in who...more

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What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of th...more

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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

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The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to ima...more

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory,...more

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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

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We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

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But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived...more

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The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedr...more

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O happiness! O happiness! Wilt thou perhaps sing, O my soul? Thou liest in the grass. But this is the secret, solemn hour, when no shepherd playeth hi...more

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O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!