Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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