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What makes heroic? - To go and meet simultaneously one’s greatest sorrow and one’s greatest hope.

What do you believe in? - In this: that the weight of all things must be determined anew.

What does your conscience say? - ‘You should become him who you are.’

Where lies your greatest dangers? - In pity.

What do you love in others? - My hopes.

Whom do you call bad? - Him who always wants to make ashamed.

What is to you the most humane thing? - To spare anyone shame.

What is the seal of freedom attained? - No longer to be ashamed of oneself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘The Gay Science’