Friedrich Nietzsche

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• A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.

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• What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

  The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2

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• Without music, life would be a mistake.

  Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.33

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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