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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undes

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have ones experiences in common. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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