The Will to Power · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Those men who are in themselves destinies, and whose advent is the advent of fate, the whole race of _heroic_ bearers of burdens: oh! how heartily and gladly would they have respite from themselves for once in a while!--how they crave after stout hearts and shoulders, that they might free themselves, were it but for an hour or two, from that which oppresses them! And how fruitlessly they crave! ... They wait; they observe all that passes before their eyes: no man even cometh nigh to them with a thousandth part of their suffering and passion, no man guesseth to what end they have waited.... At last, at last, they learn the first lesson of their life: to wait no longer; and forthwith they learn their second lesson: to be affable, to be modest; and from that time onwards to endure everybody and every kind of thing--in short, to endure still a little more than they had endured theretofore. 6. The Highest Man as Lawgiver of the Future.
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