“Man does not live for pleasure…”

I found an interesting website with See: examples of trying to translate Nietzsche’s maxims.

Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie? - Der Mensch strebt nicht nach Glück; nur der Engländer thut das.

Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does. (Twilight of the Idols, “Maxims and Arrows,” #12)

I’d seen that as

Man does not live for pleasure; only the Englishman does. (Twilight of the Idols, “Maxims and Arrows,” #12)

Though less accurate, I like the mistranslation better.

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