“He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)

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

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