"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice……" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth."
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1,640 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which…
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that…
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the…
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit…
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of…
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the…
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The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family…
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way…
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May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and…
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Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand…
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Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in…
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All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the…
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I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome,…
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Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right…
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