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Learning to Command.—Children of unpretentious families must be taught to command, just as much as other children must be taught to obey.

Learning to Command.—Children of unpretentious families must be taught to command, just as much as other children must be taught to obey.

Approximate author period: c. 1872 AD · industrial

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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Approximate author period: c. 1872 AD · industrial
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Human, All-Too-Human, Part 1 (1909 English edition) (1909 AD)

Part1, complete printed aphorism 395; Helen Zimmern translation; Edinburgh and London: T.N. Foulis,1909

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Photographic portrait, 1882

Author of Human, All-Too-Human, here represented by complete numbered passages in Helen Zimmern’s 1909 and Paul V. Cohn’s 1913 English editions. Catalogue lifetime 1844–1900; historical philosophical arguments and dated viewpoints require context, rather than treating every sentence as general advice.

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