What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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