Thursday, March 15, 2007
T[it/ête]-[for/à]-t[at/ête]
"Weirdly enough, I think Robert D. comes out of this whole thing rather well, precisely because he was never in this thing..." - Nick
169. Open enemies -- "Courage before the enemy is one thing; [but] it does not prevent one from being a coward and indecisive scatterbrain." That is how Napoleon judged "the most courageous person" he knew: Murat (French general, 1767-1815). -- Which shows that open enemies are indispensable to some people if they are to rise to their own kind of virtue, manliness, and cheerfulness. - Nietzsche, The Gay Science