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“To "give style" to one's character…is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses of their nature and then fit them into an artistic plan until every one of them appears as art and reason and even weaknesses delight the eye.”

“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is—to live DANGEROUSLY!…At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due; it will want to RULE and POSSESS, and you with it!”

“What was philosophy when doubt was experienced as a sin of the most dangerous kind?”

We should be able to stand ABOVE morality… How then could we possibly dispense with art—and with the fool? —And as long as you are in any way ASHAMED before yourselves, you do not yet belong with us.

“Does my happiness itself sit in this quiet place—my happier ego, my second, departed self? Not to be dead and yet no longer be alive? A spiritlike being: quietly observing, gliding, floating?… Yes! To move OVER existence!”

“Magnanimity contains the same degree of egoism as does revenge, but egoism of a different quality.”

So difficult but so fruitful

“Whether benefiting or hurting others involves sacrifices for us does not affect the ultimate value of our actions. Even if we offer our lives, as martyrs do for their church, this is a sacrifice that is offered for OUR desire of power or for the purpose of preserving our feeling of power.”