"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
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"You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on resentment
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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on purpose
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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on psychology
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"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past
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"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on marriage
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"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lies and lying
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on laughter
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"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on humility
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
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"He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on self-esteem
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