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    "title": "Twilight of the Idols",
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    "date": "written in 1888; published in 1889",
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            "text": "12. — Hat er das selbst noch begriffen, dieser Klügste aller Selbst-Überlister? Sagte er sich das zuletzt, in der Weisheit seines Muthes zum Tode?… Sokrates wollte sterben: — nicht Athen, er gab sich den Giftbecher, er zwang Athen zum Giftbecher… „Sokrates ist kein Arzt, sprach er leise zu sich: der Tod allein ist hier Arzt… Sokrates selbst war nur lange krank…“",
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            "text": "12. Did this cleverest of self-deceivers finally understand that, in his courageous wisdom before death?… Socrates wanted to die: Athens did not give him the poison cup; he gave it to himself and compelled Athens to give it… “Socrates is no physician,” he softly told himself; “death alone is physician here… Socrates himself was only long ill…”",
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