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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.
The Dawn, Sec. 297

“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”

Source: This Spoke Zarathustra (Tak pravil Zarathustra)

“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”

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Human, All Too Human (1878)

“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.”

Misattributed
First recorded appearance: Germaine de Staël's On Germany (1813). ". . . sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane." There are several other pre-Nietzsche examples, indicating that the phrase was widespread in the nineteenth-century; it was referred to in 1927 as an "old proverb".

“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal,  and yet if  a melody has not  reached its end, it has not reached its goal.”

Variant: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.