“On the benefits and harms of history for life” is one of the early works of the outstanding German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, but it already fully demonstrated the features of his author’s style - paradoxical thinking and aphoristic presentation. The collection also contains the following works: “Twilight idols, or How to philosophize with a hammer”, “On philosophers”, “On truth and lies in an extra-moral sense”, and “Concluding remarks” - memoirs of Friedrich Nietzsche’s sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. p>The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.