Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.

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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

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Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach...

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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

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It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

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Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

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There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

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It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

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The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

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A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.

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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

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