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> [To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/to-discover-he-is-loved-in-return-ought-really-to-disenchant-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-ought-to-learn-from-the-kine-one-thing-ruminating/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/style-ought-to-prove-that-one-believes-in-an-idea-not-only-that-one/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-week-we-ought-to-have-one-hour-for-recieving-letters-then-go/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-object-of-convalescence-ought-to-be-to-turn-our-attention-to-life/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-man-as-he-ought-to-be-that-sounds-to-us-as-insipid-as-a-tree-as-it/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/i-shall-repeat-a-hundred-times-we-really-ought-to-free-ourselves-from/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/to-go-on-vegetating-in-cowardly-dependence-on-physicians-and/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-letter-is-an-unannounced-visit-the-postman-the-agent-of-rude/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-ought-to-fear-a-man-who-hates-himself-for-we-are-at-risk-of/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-ought-to-be-regarded-as-wrongdoers-who-deserve-to-be/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-order-to-be-able-thus-to-misjudge-and-thus-to-grant-left-handed/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/with-regard-to-philosophical-metaphysics-i-always-see-increasing/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-good-all-that-enhances-the-feeling-of-power-the-will-to-power/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-find-nothing-easier-than-being-wise-patient-superior-we-drip-with/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-think-that-play-and-fairytales-belong-to-childhood-how/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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## Other authors on Ought

## More by Friedrich Nietzsche

> [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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