When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. - Friedrich Nietzsche

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

"To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond — . To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con, at will; to condescend to them, for a few hours; to seat oneself on them as on a horse, often as on an ass — for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as much as of their fire. To reserve one's three hundred foregrounds; also the dark glasses; for there are cases when nobody may look into our eyes, still less into our "grounds." And to choose for company that impish and cheerful vice, courtesy. And to remain master of one's four virtues: of courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude."

Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.