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Ought Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
- A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and…
- To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought…
- Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
- We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
- What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that…
- A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.
- In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This,…
- One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
- We ought to face our destiny with courage.
- When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your…
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- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
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- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
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