Haughty Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.”

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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