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My time has not come either; some are born posthumously.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Never Forget!- The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?

~Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, ...

~Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

~Friedrich Nietzsche