Some are of such material that
society may fashion this or that of them: do with them what
one will, they will consider themselves content and find no
reason to bemoan a misspent life. Others are made of too exceptional a material – it needn't be, for all that, exceptionally
fine, but merely uncommon – not to consider they are sure to
fare ill unless, as the sole exception, they are able to live in
keeping with their sole purpose in life: in all other cases society will suffer the subsequent damages. For everything that
appears to the individual as part of a misspent, failed life, his
whole load of despondence, paralysis, malaise, irritability, covetousness, he hurls back onto society – and thus there forms
around society a bad, stifling atmosphere and, in the most favorable case, a storm cloud.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn 213
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn 213