If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be...

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be...

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far...

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far...

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy...

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy...

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole...

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole...

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good

Success has always been a great liar.

Success has always been a great liar.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could...

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could...

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is...

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is...

Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he...

Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he...

There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.

There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose...

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose...

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of...

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of...