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Weakness Corrupts
- Weakness corrupts, and absolute weakness corrupts absolutely.
- This Nietzschean inversion of "power corrupts" describes will to power as a psychological principle.
True Power
- Truly powerful people don't need to demonstrate their power by hurting others.
- They act out of fullness, while the insecure seek to inflict pain for a sense of power.
Goethe's Unintentional Suffering
- Goethe, a powerful figure, caused suffering unintentionally.
- Nietzsche uses Goethe's heartbreak of Friederike as an example.