Active, successful natures act, not according to the dictum know thyself, but as if there hovered before them the commandment will a self and thou shalt become a self. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Active, successful natures act, not according to the dictum know thyself, but as if there hovered before them the commandment will a self and thou shalt become a self.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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