"The vanity of others offends our taste only when it offends our vanity."
--Beyond Good and Evil, sec. 176.
"What is noble? What does the word 'noble' still mean to us today? What betrays, what allows one to recognize the noble human being, under this heavy, overcast sky of the beginning rule of the plebs that makes everything opaque and leaden?...
"It is not the works, it is the faith that is decisive here, that determines the order of rank--to take up again an ancient religious formula in a new and more profound sense: some fundamental certainty that a noble soul has about itself, something that cannot be sought, nor found, nor perhaps lost.
"The noble soul has reverence for itself."
--Beyond Good and Evil, sec. 288
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