This context enables us to understand the passionate affect… - Friedrich Nietzsche

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This context enables us to understand the passionate affection in which the poets of the New Comedy held Euripides; so that we are no longer startled by the desire of Philemon, who wished to be hanged at once so that he might meet Euripides in the underworld, so long as he could be sure that the deceased was still in full possession of his senses.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.

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Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

He has heart who knows fear, but vanquishes it; who sees the abyss, but with pride.
He who sees the abyss, but with eagle's eyes,- he who with eagle's talons grasps the abyss: he has courage.

This context enables us to understand the passionate affection in which the poets of the New Comedy held Euripides; so that we are no longer startled… - Friedrich Nietzsche

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