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

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

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If, in all that you wish to do, you begin by asking yourself: am I certain that I would wish to do this an infinite number of times? This should be fo...more

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Art is the proper task of life.

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And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? W...more

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Art is the proper task of life.

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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.