Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? – Galileo Galilei

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. – George Bernard Shaw

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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. – Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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