It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
Friedrich NietzscheSo live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
Friedrich NietzscheWhoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
Friedrich Nietzsche