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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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Children Cure Music Solution
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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Believe Proper Truth
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World

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