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By Friedrich Nietzsche
From the military school of life—That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
- Source
- The Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophise with the Hammer (translated by Anthony M. Ludovici), The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 16, ed. Oscar Levy, 1911 · Maxims and Missiles, no. 8, p. 2
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- George Allen & Unwin, London (Internet Archive scan of a later impression of the 1911 edition)
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From Maxims and Missiles (Maxims and Arrows) no. 8 in Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (written 1888, published 1889), in Anthony M. Ludovici's English translation (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1911, as vol. 16 of Oscar Levy's Complete Works). Nietzsche wrote in German, so this is the translator's wording. The popular version, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger," changes "me" to "us".