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.