Full Idea
To remain master of one's four virtues: courage, insight, sympathy, solitude.
Gist of Idea
The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], §284)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Beyond Good and Evil', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1973], p.195
A Reaction
Compare this with 'Daybreak (Dawn)' 556. Solitude is the surprising addition, defended as the urge to 'cleanliness', when since humanity is 'unclean'.
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