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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace, Soul, Desire
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Clever, Women, Believe

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Feelings, Charity, Misery
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Good And Evil, Illusion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.194, e-artnow

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Creating, Suffering, Salvation
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.90, Jester House Publishing

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

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Independent, Men, Overcoming
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

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Truth, Justice, Pure
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Peter Preuss (1980). “On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Part II of Thoughts Out of Season”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

The melancholia of everything completed!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Character, Eye
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.67, Penguin

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty, Modesty, Increase
"Human, All Too Human". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorism 398, 1878.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Silence, Difficult

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Creativity, Knowledge

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Thoughtful, Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Loss, People, Secret
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.180, U of Nebraska Press

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dirty, Naughty, Water
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.107, Penguin

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Challenges, Distinguished
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.196, Vintage

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

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Lying, Men, Talking
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

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God, Mirrors, Should

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

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Two, People, Ironic

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, Dance, Dancing
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

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Creativity, Nuts, Would Be

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

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Earth, Breasts, Wells
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.196, Penguin

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Grateful, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness, Mind, Simple Life
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.21, Oxford University Press

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Atheism, Herds
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.90, Friedrich Nietzsche

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