“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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