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Today As Always, Men Fall Into Two Groups: Slaves And Free Men. Whoever Does Not Have Two-thirds Of His Day For Himself, Is A Slave, Whatever He May Be: A Statesman, A Businessman, An Official, Or A Scholar.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Today As Always, Men

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Today As Always, Men Fall Into Two Groups: Slaves And Free Men. Whoever Does Not Have Two-thirds Of His Day For Himself, Is A Slave, Whatever He May Be: A Statesman, A Businessman, An Official, Or A Scholar.

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The Inability To Lie Is Far From The Love Of Truth.

The People We Have Employed In An Undertaking That Has Turned Out Badly Should Be Doubly Rewarded.

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For Men Are Not Equal: Thus Speaks Justice.

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Noble And Wise Men Once Believed In The Music Of The Spheres: Noble And Wise Men Still Continue To Believe In The "moral Significance Of Existence." But One Day Even This Sphere-music Will No Longer Be Audible To Them! They Will Wake Up And Take Note That Their Ears Were Dreaming.

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We Cannot Even Reproduce Our Thoughts Entirely In Words.

A Beautiful Woman Seductively Dressed Will Never Catch Cold No Matter How Low-cut Her Gown.

Madness Is The Exception In Individuals But The Rule In Groups.

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And Like A Wind Shall I One Day Blow Amongst Them And With My Spirit Take Away Their Soul's Breath: Thus My Future Wills It.

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One Must Be A Sea, To Receive A Polluted Stream Without Becoming Impure.

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Like Tourists Huffing And Puffing To Reach The Peak We Forget The View On The Way Up.

Virtues Are Dangerous As Vices Insofar As They Are Allowed To Rule Over One As Authorities And Not As Qualities One Develops Oneself.

We Seldom Break Our Leg So Long As Life Continues A Toilsome Upward Climb. The Danger Comes When We Begin To Take Things Easily And Choose The Convenient Paths.

... 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.

It Is Only Those Who Know How To Feel That "this Is Not Good" Who Devise Improvements.

The Man Of Knowledge Must Be Able Not Only To Love His Enemies But Also To Hate His Friends.

To Find Everything Profound - That Is An Inconvenient Trait. It Makes One Strain One's Eyes All The Time, And In The End One Finds More Than One Might Have Wished.

It Is Certainly Not The Least Charm Of A Theory That It Is Refutable.

Some Men Have Sighed Over The Abduction Of Their Wives, But Many More Have Sighed Because No One Wanted To Abduct Theirs.

A Sure Way To Irritate People And To Put Evil Thoughts Into Their Heads Is To Keep Them Waiting A Long Time. This Makes Them Immoral.

All Truth Is Simple... Is That Not Doubly A Lie?

Will, Pure Will, Without The Troubles And Complexities Of Intellect - How Happy! How Free!

We Criticize A Thinker More Acutely When He Advances A Proposition That Is Disagreeable To Us; And Yet It Would Be More Reasonableto Do So When His Proposition Is Agreeable To Us.

A Woman's Pity, Which Is Talkative, Carries The Sick Person's Bed To The Public Marketplace.

Worldly Wisdom Do Not Stay In The Field! Nor Climb Out Of Sight. The Best View Of The World Is From A Medium Height.

Whoever Gives Advice To A Sick Person Acquires A Feeling Of Superiority Over Him, Whether The Advice Be Accepted Or Rejected.

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When A Man Reaches His Maturity In Understanding And In Years, The Feeling Comes Over Him That His Father Was Wrong To Beget Him.

Watch Them Clamber, These Swift Monkeys! They Clamber Over One Another And Thus Drag One Another Into The Mud And The Depth. They All Want To Get To The Throne: That Is Their Madness — As If Happiness Sat On The Throne. Often, Mud Sits On The Throne — And Often The Throne Also On Mud. Mad They All Appear To Me, Clambering Monkeys And Overardent. Foul Smells Their Idol, The Cold Monster: Foul, They Smell To Me Altogether, These Idolators.

The Desire To Annoy No One, To Harm No One, Can Equally Well Be The Sign Of A Just As Of An Anxious Disposition.

God Is A Thought Who Makes Crooked All That Is Straight.

Natural Death Is Independent Of All Reason And Is Really An Irrational Death, In Which The Pitiable Substance Of The Shell Determines How Long The Kernel Is To Exist Or Not; In Which, Accordingly, The Stunted, Diseased And Dull Witted Jailer Is Lord, And Indicates The Moment At Which His Distinguished Prisoner Shall Die.

In Every Form Of Womanly Love Something Of Motherly Love Also Comes To Light.

Not Necessity, Not Desire - No, The Love Of Power Is The Demon Of Men. Let Them Have Everything - Health, Food, A Place To Live, Entertainment - They Are And Remain Unhappy And Low-spirited: For The Demon Waits And Waits And Will Be Satisfied.

If A Man Have A Strong Faith He Can Indulge In The Luxury Of Skepticism.

To Discover He Is Loved In Return Ought Really To Disenchant The Lover With The Beloved.

Supposing Truth Is A Woman -- What Then?

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Whatever May Be Your Desire To Accomplish Great Deeds, The Deep Silence Of Pregnancy Never Comes To You! The Event Of The Day Sweeps You Along Like Straws Before The Wind Whilst Ye Lie Under The Illusion That Ye Are Chasing The Event,-poor Fellows! If A Man Wishes To Act The Hero On The Stage He Must Not Think Of Forming Part Of The Chorus; He Should Not Even Know How The Chorus Is Made Up.

When One Is Young, One Venerates And Despises Without That Art Of Nuances Which Constitutes The Best Gain Of Life, And It Is Only Fair That One Has To Pay Dearly For Having Assaulted Men And Things In This Manner With Yes And No. Everything Is Arranged So That The Worst Of Tastes, The Taste For The Unconditional, Should Be Cruelly Fooled And Abused Until A Man Learns To Put A Little Art Into His Feelings And Rather To Risk Trying Even What Is Artificial — As The Real Artists Of Life Do.

There Is Such A Thing As A Hatred Of Lies And Dissimulation, Which Is The Outcome Of A Delicate Sense Of Humor; There Is Also The Selfsame Hatred But As The Result Of Cowardice, In So Far As Falsehood Is Forbidden By Divine Law. Too Cowardly To Lie.

Do I Advise You To Love The Neighbor? I Suggest Rather To Escape From The Neighbor And To Love Those Who Are The Farthest Away From You. Higher Than The Love For The Neighbor Is The Love For The Man Who Is Distant And Has Still To Come.

Go Through The Towns And Ask Yourselves Whether These People Should Reproduce! Let Them Go To Their Whores!

I Assess The Power Of A Will By How Much Resistance, Pain, Torture It Endures And Knows How To Turn To Its Advantage.

Lightning And Thunder Need Time, The Light Of The Stars Needs Time, Deeds Need Time, Even After They Are Done, To Be Seen And Heard.

By Losing Your Goal, You Have Lost Your Way.

Accomplish Your Goals

Sometimes It Just Takes Stronger Eyeglasses To Cure Those Who Are In Love--and Someone With The Ability To Imagine A Face Or A Figure Twenty Years Older Might Perhaps Pass Through Life Quite Undisturbed.

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