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By Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
- Source
- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (translated by Helen Zimmern), 1907 · aphorism 168, p. 99
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- The Macmillan Company, New York (Internet Archive scan of the 1907 edition)
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From aphorism 168 of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (1886), in Helen Zimmern's English translation (New York: Macmillan, 1907). Nietzsche wrote in German, so this is the translator's wording.