“Life is, after all, not a product of morality.”

Preface 1, tr. R.J. Hollingdale. The German original has slightly other meaning: "das Leben ist nun einmal nicht von der Moral ausgedacht" ("...and the life was not invented, one day, by morality").
Human, All Too Human (1878)

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

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