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They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) _ not only are they better, but they have a __etter time_, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can__ bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated _ it seems to me just to stink of lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morality
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They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) _ not only are they better, but they have a __etter time_, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can__ bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated _ it seems to me just to stink of lies.
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On the Genealogy of Morality

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