Status Updates From Aphorisms on Love and Hate ...

To have thoughts of revenge and execute them means to be struck with a violent - but temporary - fever. But to have thoughts of revenge with- out the strength or courage to execute them means to endure a chronic suffering, a poisoning of body and soul. A morality that notes only the intentions assesses both cases equally; usually the first case is assessed as worse (because of evil consequences). That's shortsighted.

"Pity weakens the soul. Observe how children weep and cry, so that they wil be pitied, how they wait for the moment when their condition will be noticed. (...) The pity that the spectators then express console the weak and suffering, inasmuch as they see that, despite all their weakness, they still have at least one power: the power to hurt."

Allrighty, time to strengthen the soul... 🫣

“free-spirited people, living for knowledge alone, will soon find they have achieved their external goal in life”

“we feel it more painfully than when we ourselves do it... thus our love for him is more intense than his own love for himself”

but also could’ve done without the marriage talk

Before yall sic me for starting another book it’s only 50 pages leave me alone

Before yall sick me for starting another book it’s like 50 pages leave me alone

why so afraid of women 😌 dude