"The poison by which the weaker nature..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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“We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!”
“What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.”
“Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.”
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“To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.”
“Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,Nor age so eat up my invention,Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,But they shall find awaked in such a kindBoth strength of limb and policy of mind,Ability in means, and choice of friends,To quit me of them throughly.”
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
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“The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.”
“... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.”
“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”