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

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

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.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope...

The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope...

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul...

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul...

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man

Idleness is the parent of all psychology

Idleness is the parent of all psychology

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Plato was a bore.

Plato was a bore.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an...

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an...

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure -...

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure -...

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.