Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche

At the moment when a man openly makes known his difference of opinion from a well-known party leader, the whole world thinks that he must be angry with the latter. Sometimes, however, he is just on the point of ceasing to be angry with him. He ventures to put himself on the same plane as his opponent, and is free from the tortures of suppressed envy.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, pp. 404-405, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Human, All-Too- Human, part II, Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions, trans. by Paul V. Cohn, in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 7, p. 39, ed. Oscar Levy, New York, Russell and Russell (1964). Mixed Opinions and Maxims, aphorism 60, "Open Contradiction Often Conciliatory," (1879).
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