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With a great goal. - With a great goal one is superior even to justice, not only to one's deeds and one's judges.
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
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What does your conscience say? - "You shall become the person you are."*
* Nietzsche derived thsi motto from Pinday, Pyth. II, 73 and later gave his Ecce Homo the subtitle: "How one becomes what one is." Cf. also Hegel's formulation that "spirit...makes itself that which it is." Cf. Kaufmann, 159, and Hegel, section 60; also section 335 below, near the end.
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Copied from Walter Kaufmann's 1974 translation.
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