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Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)

On October 15, 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Rocken, a village in Prussian Saxony. The son of a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was a brilliant student who went on to shine at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig. At age 24, he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Basel, becoming a Swiss citizen in the process. Beginning with The Birth of Tragedy in 1872, and continuing with such classics as Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, Nietzsche broke new ground in religious and philosophical thinking, influencing many later generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, writers, and poets. Fascinated by the paradoxes of everyday life, Nietzsche often wrote about them in his books and essays. He died at age 55 on August 25, 1900.

Talking about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.	Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
It takes less time to learn how to write nobly than how to write lightly and straightforwardly.
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.	The great despisers are the great reverers.
If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.	Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Not joy but joylessness is the mother of debauchery.	He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.	Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established.
Nobody talks more passionately about his rights than he who, in the depths of his soul, is doubtful about them.
"Forgive us our virtues." That is what we should ask of our neighbors.	The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.	My time has not yet come … some are born posthumously.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: with the help of it one has got through many a bad night.