Nietzsche: I Wish Suffering

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“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities — I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not — that one endures.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

I actually hear a Christian-ish note in that sentiment, in that too receive such harship was taken to show God's favor, by being particularly tested - like a coal being made into a diamond.