The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive


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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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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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And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
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All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
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This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
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Only sick music makes money today.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
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Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
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He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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