Day 3465, after.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human
In Relations With Others

351 Pangs of conscience after social gatherings. -Why do we have pangs of conscience after ordinary social gatherings? Because we have taken important things lightly, because in speaking of other people we have not spoken with complete truthfulness, or because we have kept silent where we ought to have said something, because we did not take an occasion to spring to our feet and run away, in short, because we have behaved in society as if we belonged to it.

Day 3458, all of them.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human
In Relations With Others

346 Unintentionally impolite. -When someone unintentionally treats another person impolitely, not greeting him, for instance, because he does not recognize him, this rankles inside him even though he cannot reproach himself for his own intentions; the bad opinion that he has engendered in the other 3o person vexes him, or he fears the consequences of ill feeling, or it causes him pain to have injured the other person-hence vanity, fear, or pity can be stirred, perhaps all of them together.

Day 3451, instead.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human
By Oneself Alone

632 Anyone who has not made his way through various convictions, but has instead remained attached to the belief in whose net he first became entangled, is at all events a representative of backward cultures precisely because of this constancy; in accordance with this lack of cultivation (which always presupposes cultivatability), he is hard, injudicious, unteachable, without gentleness, always suspicious, an unscrupulous person who seizes upon every means for making his opinion prevail because he simply cannot comprehend that there have to be any other opinions; in this regard, he may perhaps be a source of strength and even salutary in cultures that have become all too free and flaccid, yet only because he forcibly stimulates opposition to himself: for in this way, the more delicate creations of the new culture, which are forced to struggle with him, become strong themselves.