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“To stand with relaxed muscles and unharnessed will: that is the most difficult for all of you who are sublime. When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible – such descent I call beauty. And there is nobody from whom I want beauty as much as from you who are powerful: let your kindness be your final self-conquest. Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

Supposedly a Nietzsche quote, given to me by a friend. It came up in a discussion of what he and I are capable of doing, and what we restrain ourselves from.

I felt like sharing it, since it seemed like something Jews would appreciate. The ability to do wrong, and consciously choosing to do right, and moving against our own self interest.

It just doesn't seem to be "right" when someone claims to be moral simply because they are incapable of doing wrong. It takes more strength, I think, to be tempted, to have the ability to take what you want, and to restrain yourself for the betterment of others.

The friend is my Asian buddy, Corban. We've been learning from each other for a few years now. We each come from completely different sides of the field. Him being a capitalist middle class heterosexual male with normal interests (okay, he's a geek, but normal for being one of those). I'm an anarchist middle class (choosing to live in poverty) asexual TG with batshit insane interests. Lol.

I teach him philosophy (most of the time) and he teaches me economics (most of the time). We've been reversing that role lately.