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The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")

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Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Levy, Oscar, Cohn, Paul V. (Paul Victor), Common, Thomas, and Petre, Maude Dominica
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Poor.—He is now poor, but not because everything has been taken from him, but because he has thrown everything away:—what does he care? He is accustomed to find new things.—It is the poor who misunderstand his voluntary poverty.

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The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza"), Project Gutenberg eBook #52881

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