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Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies ...more

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword...more

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The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescripti...more

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Woman was God's second mistake.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' ...more

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second:...more

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Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his ...more

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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may b...more

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for t...more

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.