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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Character, Opportunity, Greatness
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wicked, Littles, Facts
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Rags, Dresses, Cleanliness

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Causes, Justify

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Light, Illumination, Order

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Moving, Law, Perspective
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.199, Vintage

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Equality, Opposites

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Innocent, Creatures, Incompetent
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.20, e-artnow

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Good Man, Aristocracy
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.135, Courier Corporation

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Action, Cowardly, Conscience

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate, Want, Danger

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Friedrich Nietzsche
Circles, Truth Is, Crooked
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.175, Courier Corporation

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith, Lying, Mean
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Philosophy, Men

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Powerful, Justice, Distrust
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.122, Friedrich Nietzsche

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty, Beautiful, Believe

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dirty, Reading, Troops
"Human, All Too Human". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, II.137, 1878.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Poison, Littles

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Names, Way
The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 261 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Soul, Noble, Fundamentals
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.619, e-artnow

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hypocrite, Play, Hypocrisy
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.46, Courier Corporation

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Unique, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Gains, Imitation

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Confidence, Philosophy, Communication
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hands, Needs, Honey
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.81, Penguin

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