What we Do.—What we do is never understood, but only praised and blamed.

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Ultimate Scepticism.—But what after all are man's truths?—They are his irrefutable errors.

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Where Cruelty is Necessary.—He who is great is cruel to his second-rate virtues and judgments.

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With a high Aim.—With a high aim a person is superior even to justice, and not only to his deeds and his judges.

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What makes Heroic?—To face simultaneously one's greatest suffering and one's highest hope.