To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche: "To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance."

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Assert	Because	Called	Cloak
Costs	Courage	Cowardly	Demands
Effort	Entitled	Exercise	Fail
Faults	Forbearance	Kind	Lazy
Patience	Perfectly	Power	Right
Rights	These	Virtues

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