Facta Ficta

vitam impendere vero

Nietzsche thinking

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INFLUENCE A PHANTOM, NOT A REALITY

The man of mark gradually learns that so far as he has influence he is a phantom in other brains, and perhaps he falls into a state of subtle vexation of soul, in which he asks himself whether he must not maintain this phantom of himself for the benefit of his fellow-men.