Friedrich Nietzsche
- One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
(topic: arguing)
- When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way--before one began.
(topic: experience)
- Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
(topic: friendship)
- This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
(topic: gifts and giving)
- We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
(topic: happiness)
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
(topic: hatred)
- Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
(topic: hope)
- There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
(topic: love)
- 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?
(topic: marriage)
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