Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Gratitude
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A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.
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He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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