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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

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Reputation, Easier, Bad Reputation

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

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Truth, Long, Religion

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

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Compassion, Becoming, Pity

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

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Beautiful, Fall, Eye

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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Music, Passion, Jazz
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

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Men, Generosity, Littles

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

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Belief, Opinion, Conflict
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

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Men, Neighbor, He Man

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

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Water, Trying, Crowds

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

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Physicians, Nerves, Matter
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.396, Penguin

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

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Compassion, Sea, Tears
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.190, Penguin

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

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Dark, Men, Skins
Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

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Father, Night, Laughing
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

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Self, Lust, Want

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

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Warrior, Courageous, Unconcerned
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

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Volcanoes, Eruption, Growing
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.84, Vintage

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

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Believe, Heart, Mean

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

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Laughter, Humility, Laughing

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

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Dream, Sleep, Night

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

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Men, Sheep, Rams

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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Food, Power, Men

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

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Blessed, Forget, Eternal Sunshine
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.86, e-artnow

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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Ambition, Vanity, Words Of Wisdom
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

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Real, Unique, Voice

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Horse, Heart, Opponents

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