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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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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his ...more

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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may b...more

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Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, d...more

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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

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Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men...more

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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, st...more

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hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and ...more

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All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.

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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 ...more

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Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do with...more