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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day”

Friedrich Nietzsche (spoken by The wise man)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse II: The Academic Chairs of Virtue, trans. Thomas Common (1892)

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A celebrated professor teaches that virtue is valuable because it promotes good sleep; Zarathustra laughs at wisdom reduced to 'sleep without dreams'.

Citation: "No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse II: The Academic Chairs of Virtue, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q6)

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