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Addiction
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Advice
Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

Beliefs
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Beliefs
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Earth
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Existence
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Faith
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Freedom
People demand freedom only when they have no power. -- Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Giving
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Individuality
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Journey
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

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

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

Marriage
When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?

Punishment
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Success
Success has always been a great liar.

Understanding
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do and crosswise to our purposes? For love to bridge these opposites through joy it must not eliminate or deny them.—Even self-love presupposes an irreconcilable duality (or multiplicity) in a single person.