The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others

Image, The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others

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.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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