Human, All Too Human
Reflecting an admiration of Voltaire as a free thinker , but also a break in his friendship with composer Richard Wagner two years earlier , Nietzsche dedicated the original 1878 edition of "Human , All Too Human" “to the memory of Voltaire on the celebration of the anniversary of his death , May 30 , 1778 . ” Instead of a preface , the first part originally included a quotation from Descartes's "Discourse on the Method" . 
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