If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this one direction, there there won't be any left for the other direction. Culture and the state - let us be honest with ourselves - these are adversaries. Friedrich Nietzsche
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  1. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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

  3. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

  4. One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

  5. Amor Fati — “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

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