People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
Friedrich NietzscheThe best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
Friedrich NietzscheOne must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
Friedrich NietzscheAgain and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
Friedrich Nietzsche