Character, Eternal Recurrence, Nihilism

Nietzsche's offering at #70, in ch. IV of Beyond Good and Evil, "If a man has character, he still has his typical experience which always repeats itself", personalizes Eternal Recurrence, i. e. by conceiving it as an expression of Constancy of Character.  Accordingly, the affirmation of Eternal Recurrence is self-affirmation, and, likewise, the denial of it is self-denial.  However, in this context, the latter means, not 'self-constraint', but 'self-hatred'.  Thus, the aphorism can be interpreted as part of Nietzsche's diagnosis of Schopenhauer's Asceticism as rooted in self-hatred, i. e. in Nihilism.