To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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