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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm and Harvey, Alexander
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Love and Justice.—Why is love so highly prized at the expense of justice and why are such beautiful things spoken of the former as if it were a far higher entity than the latter? Is the former not palpably a far more stupid thing than the latter?—Certainly, and on that very account so much the more agreeable to everybody: it is blind and has a rich horn of plenty out of which it distributes its gifts to everyone, even when they are unmerited, even when no thanks are returned. It is impartial like the rain, which according to the bible and experience, wets not alone the unjust but, in certain circumstances, the just as well, and to their skins at that.

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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Project Gutenberg eBook #38145

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