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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.44, Oxford University Press

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

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Clever, Rights, People

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

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Sometimes, Harder
Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.218, Cambridge University Press

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

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Solitude, Beast, Grows

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

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Understood
Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.344, Penguin UK

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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Vanity, Honest, Shame
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.46, Hackett Publishing

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

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Inspirational, Liars, Lying

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

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Men, Endure, Submit

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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Inspirational, Joy, Suffering

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

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Heaven, Hell, Found

Success has always been a great liar.

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Success, Liars, Congratulations

No artist tolerates reality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful
"The Rebel" by Albert Camus, (Part 4: Rebellion and Art), 1951.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

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Humility, Want, Exalted
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Gary Handwerk (2000). “Human, All Too Human, I”, p.354, Stanford University Press

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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Death, Hero, Dying

He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

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Believe, Action, Willpower
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Crazy, Mad, Leaving
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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Philosophy, Way, Causes
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.205, Vintage

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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Inspirational, Success, Atheist
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.108, Vintage

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

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Destiny, Giving, Gold

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Time, Men, Duration
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

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Life, Happiness, Success
'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 4, sect. 283

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Children, Real

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Responsibility, Individual, Sense Of Responsibility

The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

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Brother, Believe, Earth

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stealing, Should
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.175, Penguin

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