“Among austere men intimacy involves shame–and is something precious.”

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“People are not ashamed to think about dirty things, but they are ashamed when they imagine that others believe them capable of having these dirty thoughts.”

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“Whom do you call bad?–Those who always want to induce shame.”

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“What do you regard as most humane?–To spare someone shame.”

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“What is the seal of liberation?–No longer to be ashamed in our own presence.”

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“I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. “Shame” is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.”

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“The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.”

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“But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver’s glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift- giving virtue is the highest virtue.”

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“What can everyone do?–Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.”

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“The hour when you say, “What does my virtue matter? It has not yet made me rage. How tired I am of my good and my evil! All that is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency!”

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“I love him who does not want to have too many virtues. One virtue is more virtue than two, since it is more knot on which to hang the rope that is destined to hang him.”

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“What? You have chosen virtue and the uplifted bosom, and yet you leer at the advantages of the unscrupulous? But virtue involves renouncing “advantages” … (to be nailed on an anti- Semite’s door).”

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“Murderous desire, hatred, distrust are nowadays the accompanying signs of physical illness: so thoroughly have we embodied our moral prejudices.–Perhaps cowardice and pity appear as symptoms of illness in savage ages. Perhaps even virtues might be symptoms.”

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“Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate–which human beings love to do.”

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“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”

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“Forgive us our virtues”Mthus should we pray to mankind.”

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“One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.”

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“To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands–or gets down.”

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“One is punished best for one’s virtues.”

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“Honest towards ourselves and towards anyone else who is our friend; brave towards the enemy; magnanimous towards the defeated; polite–always: this is how the four cardinal virtues want us to act.”

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