If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.
It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.
Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.
When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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