Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

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