Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
From Friedrich Nietzsche
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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