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1 " Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Man Alone with Himself
2 " The only human right. - He who deviates from the traditional falls victim tothe extraordinary; he who remains in the traditional becomes its slave. Ineither event he perishes. "
3 " To speak about oneself not at all is a very refined form of hypocrisy. "
4 " One man adheres to an opinion because he prides himself on having come upon it by himself; another because he has learned it with effort, and is proud of having grasped it: thus both out of vanity. "
5 " poets. Just as bad poets, in the second half of a line, look for a thought to fit their rhyme, so people in the second half of their lives, having become more anxious, look for the actions, attitudes, relationships that suit those of their earlier life, so that everything will harmonize outwardly. But then they no longer have any powerful thought to rule their life and determine it anew; rather, in its stead, comes the intention of finding a rhyme. "