Triumph Depends On A Roll Of Fate's

One Is Proud To Worship When He Cannot Be An Idol.

To Demand Of Strength That It Should Not Express Itself As Strength, That It Should Not Be A Desire To Overcome, A Desire To Throw Down, A Desire To Become Master, A Thirst For Enemies And Resistances And Triumphs, Is Just As Absurd As To Demand Of Weakness That It Should Express Itself As Strength.

The Most Intelligent Men, Like The Strongest, Find Their Happiness Where Others Would Find Only Disaster: In The Labyrinth, In Being Hard With Themselves And With Others, In Effort; Their Delight Is Self-mastery; In Them Asceticism Becomes Second Nature, A Necessity, As Instinct.

To Become Wise You Have To Want To Experience Certain Experiences, And So To Run Into Their Open Jaws. This Is Very Dangerous, Tobe Sure; Many A "wise Man" Has Been Eaten Up In Doing So.

People Are Always Angry At Anyone Who Chooses Very Individual Standards For His Life; Because Of The Extraordinary Treatment Which That Man Grants To Himself, They Feel Degraded, Like Ordinary Beings.