If someone did something unexpected, it is not because he did something that is out of his character.
It is merely because you had misperceived him as not liable to doing it in the first place.
What is within his character to do, is the sum of all actions that is actualized and more, not less.
For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! — Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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