The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it ...

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it – what it costs us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

October 15th, 1844 - August 25th, 1900