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The Secret Of Realizing The Greatest Fruitfulness And The Greatest Enjoyment Of Existence Is: To Live Dangerously! Build Your Cities On The Slopes Of Vesuvius! Send Your Ships Out Into Uncharted Seas! Live In Conflict With Your Equals And With Yourselves! Be Robbers And Ravagers As Soon As You Ca Not Be Rulers And Owners, You Men Of Knowledge! The Time Will Soon Past When You Could Be Content To Live Concealed Int He Woods Like Timid Deer!

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The Secret Of Realizing

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Secret Of Realizing The Greatest Fruitfulness And The Greatest Enjoyment Of Existence Is: To Live Dangerously! Build Your Cities On The Slopes Of Vesuvius! Send Your Ships Out Into Uncharted Seas! Live In Conflict With Your Equals And With Yourselves! Be Robbers And Ravagers As Soon As You Ca Not Be Rulers And Owners, You Men Of Knowledge! The Time Will Soon Past When You Could Be Content To Live Concealed Int He Woods Like Timid Deer!

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Physical Strength

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Path Of Least Resistance

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He Who Is Not A Bird Should Not Build His Nest Over Abysses.

Ye Shall Only Have Foes To Be Hated; But Not Foes To Be Despised: Ye Must Be Proud Of Your Foes.

By Means Of Music The Very Passions, Enjoy Themselves.

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