Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who does not want to have too many virtues. One virtue is more virtue than two, since it is more knot on which to hang the rope that is destined to hang him.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 17, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part, "Prologue," section 4 (1883).

Common, Kaufmann, and Hollingdale perhaps more wisely make no attempt to translate the play on words involved in the phrase "an den sich das Verhängniss hängt."
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