In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself — in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity — is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. They are deeply immersed in illusions and in dream images; their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and see "forms."
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That every will must consider every other will its equal, would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.
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