| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42084 |
| QUOTATION: | What we do is never understood but always merely praised or blamed. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 518, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Gay Science, first edition, “Third Book,” aphorism 264, “What We Do,” (1882). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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