2. Do you want to become happier or more indifferent to happiness and unhappiness?
3. Do you want to become more contented with oneself or more exacting and inexorable?
4. Do you want to become softer, more yielding, more human, or more inhuman?
5. Do you want to become more prudent or more ruthless?
6. Do you want to reach a goal or to do you want avoid all goals? Are you keen enough to see a boundary, a prison, a stupidity in every goal?
7. Do you wants to become more respected or more feared? Or more despised?
8. Do you want to become a tyrant or a seducer or a shepherd or a herd animal?”
The Will To Power
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