Friedrich Nietzsche

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to an exclusive boarding school at the nearby
Schulpforta Academy. The school was famous for its grandeur of alumni that
included “Klopstock and Fichte”(Brett-Evans, p.76). “It was here that
Nietzsche received the thorough education in Greek and Latin that set him upon
the road to classical philology.”(Brett-Evans, p. 76) On many occasions
Nietzsche's zeal to prove himself at the Pforta school spurned legendary tales.
One certain tale is when Nietzsche “could not bear to hear of the courage of
Mucius Scaevol, who did not flinch when his hand was burnt off, without seizing
a box of matches and firing them against his own hand.”(Bentley, p.84) At the
age of twenty, Nietzsche left to attend Bonn University. By this time Nietzsche
had come to think of himself as an “aristocrat whose great virtues are
fearlessness and willingness to assume leadership.”(Bentley, p.85) Ironically,
Nietzsche planned to study theology(to please his mother). At this time
Nietzsche no longer ...

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