BOOK THIRD
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Levy, Oscar, Cohn, Paul V. (Paul Victor), Common, Thomas, and Petre, Maude Dominica
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One times One.—One only is always in the wrong, but with two truth begins.—One only cannot prove himself right; but two are already beyond refutation.
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Originality.—What is originality? To see something that does not yet bear a name, that cannot yet be named, although it is before everybody's eyes. As people are usually constituted, it is the name that first makes a thing generally visible to them.—Original persons have also for the most part been the namers of things.
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Sub specie æterni.—A: "You withdraw faster and faster from the living; they will soon strike you out of their lists!"—B: "It is the only way to participate in the privilege of the dead." A: "In what privilege?"—B: "No longer having to die."
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Without Vanity.—When we love we want our defects to remain concealed,—not out of vanity, but lest the person loved should suffer therefrom. Indeed, the lover would like to appear as a God,—and not out of vanity either.
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What we Do.—What we do is never understood, but only praised and blamed.
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Ultimate Scepticism.—But what after all are man's truths?—They are his irrefutable errors.
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Where Cruelty is Necessary.—He who is great is cruel to his second-rate virtues and judgments.
267.
With a high Aim.—With a high aim a person is superior even to justice, and not only to his deeds and his judges.
268.
What makes Heroic?—To face simultaneously one's greatest suffering and one's highest hope.
269.
What dost thou Believe in?—In this: That the weights of all things must be determined anew.
270.
What Saith thy Conscience?—"Thou shalt become what thou art."
271.
Where are thy Greatest Dangers?—In pity.
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What dost thou Love in others?—My hopes.
273.
Whom dost thou call Bad?—Him who always wants to put others to shame.
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What dost thou think most humane?—To spare a person shame.
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What is the Seal of Attained Liberty?—To be no longer ashamed of oneself.