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“One should adopt only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand—or escape.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: The Twilight of the Idols — Project Gutenberg

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