„This context enables us to understand the passionate affection in which the poets of the New Comedy held Euripides; so that we are no longer startled by the desire of Philemon, who wished to be hanged at once so that he might meet Euripides in the underworld, so long as he could be sure that the deceased was still in full possession of his senses.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.“
— Virginia Woolf
„No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.“
— C.G. Jung
„Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.“
— Carl von Clausewitz