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Day 3472, failed.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human
In Relations With Others

370 Discharging ill humor.-Any person who fails at something prefers to attribute this failure to the ill will of someone else, rather than to chance. His stimulated sensibility is relieved by thinking of a person and not of a thing as the reason for his failure; for we can revenge ourselves on people, but we have to choke down the injuries of chance. Therefore, when a prince has failed at something, his circle tends to designate some individual as the ostensible cause and to sacrifice that person in the interest of all the courtiers; for otherwise, the ill humor of the
prince would be vented on all of them, since he cannot take any revenge on the goddess of fate herself.

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.