Pick your poison . . .

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Why the philosopher rarely turns out well. His requirements include qualities that usually destroy a man:

1. a tremendous multiplicity of qualities; he must be a brief abstract of man, of all man's higher and lower desires: danger from antitheses, also from disgust at himself;
2. he must be inquisitive in the most various of directions: danger of going to pieces;
3. he must be just and fair in the highest sense, but profound in love, hate (and injustice), too;
4. he must not only be a spectator, but also a legislator: judge and judged (to the extent that he is a brief abstract of the world);
5. extremely multifarious, yet firm and hard. Supple.

~ Unpublished Notes of Friedrich Nietzsche (1884; §976 WP )

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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but always only what he thinks of a thing in relation to the requirements of those he educates

~ Not in Nietzsche's hand; dictated (1885)