Only Excess of Strength is Proof of Strength

[RCavallius]

From Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche:

To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength...

...Above all, war. War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound...

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal...