A septillion thautons have coalesced into a
crystalline scaffolding of letters and words before me upon my desk. What forms
and patterns, pray, do they align themselves? Only the following …
‘Unfree will’ is mythology: in real life it is only a
question of strong and weak wills.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, section 21
Few are made for
independence – it is a privilege of the strong.
- ibid.,
section 29
… we must discipline
ourselves in the winter for the summer campaign, and not rashly run upon that
which does not concern us.
- Epictetus, Discourses, Book 1 Chapter 2
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