The Will to Power · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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I should like man to begin by _respecting_ himself: everything else follows of itself. Naturally a man ceases from being anything to others in this way: for this is precisely what they are least likely to forgive. "What? a man who respects himself?"[4] This is something quite different from the blind instinct to _love_ one's self. Nothing is more common in the love of the sexes or in that duality which is called ego, than a certain contempt for that which is loved the fatalism of love. "I will have this or that"; "I would that this or that were so"; "I know that this or that is so the degrees of power: the man of _will,_ the man of _desire,_ the man of _fate._
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