“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche , book Human, All Too Human

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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.
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II.77
Human, All Too Human (1878)

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Die Mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.

II, 1. Aph. 77
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