This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. — Friedrich Nietzsche
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
In the original German
Diess nämlich ist das Schwerste, aus Liebe die offne Hand schliessen und als Schenkender die Scham bewahren.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 2.
Original citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1884, pt. 2.
