Facta Ficta

vitam impendere vero

Nietzsche thinking

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THE EXPERIMENT OF HONESTY

Young men, who wish to be more honest than they have been, seek as victim some one acknowledged to be honest, attacking him first with an attempt to reach his height by abuse—with the underlying notion that this first experiment at any rate is void of danger. For just such a one has no right to chastise the impudence of the honest man.