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Against War One Might Say That It Makes The Victor Stupid And The Vanquished Malicious. In Its Favor, That In Producing These Two Effects It Barbarizes, And So Makes The Combatants More Natural. For Culture It Is A Sleep Or A Wintertime, And Man Emerges From It Stronger For Good And For Evil.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Against War One Might

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Against War One Might Say That It Makes The Victor Stupid And The Vanquished Malicious. In Its Favor, That In Producing These Two Effects It Barbarizes, And So Makes The Combatants More Natural. For Culture It Is A Sleep Or A Wintertime, And Man Emerges From It Stronger For Good And For Evil.

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You Are Treading The Path To Your Greatness: No One Shall Follow You Here! Your Passage Has Effaced The Path Behind You, And Above That Path Stands Written: Impossibility.

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In A Friend One Should Have Ones Best Enemy. You Should Be Closest To Him With Your Heart When You Resist Him.

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What Was Formerly Merely Sickly Now Becomes Indecent : It Is Indecent To Be A Christian Today.

"this - Is Now My Way - Where Is Yours"? Thus Did I Answer Those Who Asked Me "the Way". For The Way - It Does Not Exist!

What Are Man's Truths Ultimately? Merely His Irrefutable Errors.

No, Life Has Not Disappointed Me. On The Contrary, I Find It Truer, More Desirable And Mysterious Every Year -- Ever Since The Day When The Great Liberator Came To Me: The Idea That Life Could Be An Experiment Of The Seeker For Knowledge -- And Not A Duty, Not A Calamity, Not Trickery.

A Pair Of Powerful Spectacles Has Sometimes Sufficed To Cure A Person In Love.

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What Is The Vanity Of The Vainest Man Compared With The Vanity Which The Most Modest Possesses When, In The Midst Of Nature And The World, He Feels Himself To Be Man!

Whoever Has Overthrown An Existing Law Of Custom Has Always First Been Accounted A Bad Man: But When, As Did Happen, The Law Could Not Afterwards Be Reinstated And This Fact Was Accepted, The Predicate Gradually Changed; - History Treats Almost Exclusively Of These Bad Men Who Subsequently Became Good Men!

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