“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments.
Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct.
Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism.
They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”
By Friedrich Nietzsche
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