Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
Friedrich NietzscheThis woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Friedrich NietzscheMany other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche