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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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  1. If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it …
  2. Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.
  3. No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on hi…
  4. The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, …
  5. The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
  6. A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
  7. He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
  8. With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcom…

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Topics in this quote

  • psychology
  • happiness
  • balance
  • behavior
  • emptiness
  • excess
  • moderation

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