Facta Ficta

vitam impendere vero

Nietzsche thinking

[MA-545]

SELF-ENJOYMENT IN VANITY

The vain man does not wish so much to be prominent as to feel himself prominent; he therefore disdains none of the expedients for self-deception and self-out-witting. It is not the opinion of others that he sets his heart on, but his opinion of their opinion.