PhilosophyQuotes for March 1, 2000:

"Through his act of gratitude the powerful man requites himself by violating the sphere of the benefactor. It is a milder form of revenge."

"Not a few, perhaps the great majority of men, find it necessary, in order to maintain their self-respect and a certain effectiveness in their actions, to lower and belittle the image they form of everyone they know."

"We praise or fault, depending on which of the two provides more opportunity for our powers of judgment to shine."

"One will seldom go wrong to attribute extreme actions to vanity, moderate ones to habit, and petty ones to fear."

"Everything the philosopher asserts about man is basically no more than a statement about man within a _very limited_ time span. A lack of historical sense is the congenital defect of all philosophers."

- Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human

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