Ancient Temperaments

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“An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)