“My practice of war may be summarized in four propositions. First: I attack only causes which are victorious – and at times I wait until they are victorious. Second: I attack only causes against which I cannot expect to find allies, against which I shall stand alone – against which I shall compromise myself alone. I have never taken a step in public which was not compromising: this is my criterion of doing what is right. Third: I never attack persons; I only avail myself of the person as of a strong magnifying glass with which one can render visible a general but creeping calamity which it is otherwise hard to get hold of… Fourth: I attack only causes in which any personal difference is out of the question, and in which any background of unwholesome experiences is lacking. On the contrary, to attack is with me a proof of good will, and sometimes of gratitude”

-Friedrich Nietzsche, “Ecce Homo”, translated from German to English by Walter Kaufmann