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To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.
To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The voice behind the words.
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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