Daggers Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Daggers Envy Gilded Jealousy Pity Sometimes
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always,… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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