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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Destiny, Giving, Gold

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Moving, Giving, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.695, Modern Library

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

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Kindness, Character, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.163, Courier Corporation

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

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Winning, Power, Giving

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Two, Giving, Genius
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.374, Modern Library

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, God, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, Xist Publishing

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

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Respect, Giving, Wish

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Giving, Joy

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

Friedrich Nietzsche
Class, People, Giving

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Giving, Existence

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Being Thankful, Receiving
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.205, Penguin

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Noise, Applause

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

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Two, Feet, Giving

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

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Pain, People, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.46, Courier Corporation

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Cat, Giving

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dark, Night, Giving

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

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Loyalty, Vanity, Giving

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
I Love Him, Giving, Soul
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.21, e-artnow

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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Giving, Envy, Lucky

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

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Life, Thinking, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

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Fear, Giving, Atheism

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Giving, World
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.567, Vintage

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Feelings, Comforting
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.307, Penguin

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Lightning, Doe

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Sick, Advice
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

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