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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

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Evil, Done, May
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.199, Penguin

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

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Men, Wisest Man, Age

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

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

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

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Position, Extremes, Contrary
"The Will to Power".

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

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Wall, Atmosphere, Religion

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

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Power, Dynamite, Humans

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

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Wise, Hands, Wish

Man makes god in his own image.

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Men

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

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Long Ago, Pity, Alms
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.51, Penguin

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

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Everyday, Want, Matter
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.240, Vintage

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

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Nature, Math, Science
"The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life‎". Book by Marcel Danesi (p. 71), 2004.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

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Moral, Interpretation
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.275, Modern Library

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

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Embarrassment, Involved

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

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Ass, Notes, Convincing
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.52, Vintage

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

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Want, Chance, Responsible
Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

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Evil, Want, Goodness
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

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Empathy, Apathy, Offensive
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.110, Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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Love, Live For Today, Merit

We are all afraid of the truth.

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Truth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2007). “Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are”, p.26, OUP Oxford

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

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Pain, Long, Promise
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.77, 谷月社

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

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Hate, Fire, Hatred

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

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Laughing, Grace, Half
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.31, Vintage

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

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Profound, Mouths, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.243, Modern Library

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

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Wind, Mushrooms, Criticism

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

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Real, Climbing, Hiking
"Hammer of the Gods: Selected Writings".

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