The lust of property and love: what different associations each of these ideas evokes!--and yet it might be the same impulse twice named. 51 The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual--and he does not call it poison. 56-57 The virtues of a man are called _good,_ not in respect of the results they have for himself, but in respect of the results which we expect therefrom for ourselves and for society.... The praise of the virtues is the praise of something which is privately injurious to the individual; it is praise of impulses which deprive man of his noblest self-love, and the power to take the best care of himself.... The "neighbour" praises unselfishness because _he profits by it!_ If the neighbour were "unselfishly" disposed himself, he would reject that destruction of power, that injury for _his advantage,_ he would thwart such inclinations in their origin, and above all he would manifest his unselfishness just by _not giving it a good name!_ 58-60 Living--that is to be cruel and inexorable towards all that becomes weak and old in ourselves, and not only in ourselves. 68 It is probable that the manufacturers and great magnates of commerce have hitherto lacked too much all those forms and attributes of a _superior race,_ which alone make persons interesting; if they had had the nobility of the newly-born in their looks and bearing, there would perhaps have been no socialism in the masses of the people. For these are really ready for _slavery_ of every kind, provided that the superior class above them constantly shows itself legitimately superior, and _born_ to command--by its noble presence! 78 When one continually prohibits the expression of the passions as something to be left to the "vulgar," to coarser, bourgeois, and peasant natures--that is, when one does not want to suppress the passions themselves, but only their language and demeanour, one nevertheless realises _therewith_ just what one does not want: the suppression of the passions themselves, or at least their weakening and alteration.... 83 In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge.... 86-87 Where bad eyesight can no longer see the evil impulse as such, on account of its refinement,--there man sets up the kingdom of goodness.... 88 To become the advocate of the rule--that may perhaps be the ultimate form and refinement in which nobility of character will reveal itself on earth. 90 Women are all skilful in exaggerating their weaknesses, indeed they are inventive in weaknesses, so as to seem quite fragile ornaments to which even a grain of dust does harm; their existence is meant to bring home to man's mind his coarseness, and to appeal to his conscience. 101