# Which trait condemned in this passage do you also carry? Where does it show up?

_Theme: **shadow** - card 4/4 - 2026-05-10_

> 76. Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself. 77. With his principles a man seeks either to dominate, or justify, or honour, or reproach, or conceal his habits: two men with the same principles probably seek fundamentally different ends therewith. 78. He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself thereby, as a despiser. 79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Beyond Good and Evil_

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