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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing
Spirit
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men
Women
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Knowledge
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship
Love
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ambition
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Complaint
Revenge
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Right
Will
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art
Imitation
Respect
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Night
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship
Love
Blind
Eyes
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity
Nations
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man
Woman
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men
History
Necessity
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Absurdity
Consciousness
Existence
Man
Now