This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all good things—honors, treasures, beautiful women—accessible even to cowards.
ATTRIBUTION:
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 143, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Dawn, “Third Book,” aphorism 153, “A Malcontent,” (1881).
