The Will to Power · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Before we can even think of acting, an enormous amount of work requires to be done. In the main, however, _a cautious exploitation_ of the present conditions would be our best and most advisable course of action. The actual _creation_ of conditions such as those which occur by accident, presupposes the existence of _iron_ men such as have not yet lived. Our first task must be to make the personal ideal _prevail_ and _become realised_! He who has understood the nature of man and _the origin of mankind's greatest specimens, shudders before man and takes flight from all action_: this is the result of inherited valuations!! My consolation is, that the nature of man is _evil,_ and this guarantees his _strength_!
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