# What part of you does this passage make visible that you would rather keep hidden?

_Theme: **shadow** - card 3/4 - 2026-05-15_

> The virtues of the common man would perhaps mean vice and weakness in a philosopher; it might be possible for a highly developed man, supposing him to degenerate and go to ruin, to acquire qualities thereby alone, for the sake of which he would have to be honoured as a saint in the lower world into which he had sunk.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, _Beyond Good and Evil_

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