But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two, p.46, Courier Corporation
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