costs, whether as disease and deterioration of mankind, or as his own hell and self-torture?

And why? In favour of the “temperate zones”? In favour of the temperate men? The “moral”? The mediocre? — This for the chapter: “Morals as Timidity.”

198. All the systems of morals which address themselves with a view to their “happiness,” as it is called — what else are they but suggestions for behaviour adapted to the degree of DANGER from themselves in which the individuals live; recipes for their passions, their good and bad propensities, insofar as such have the Will to Power and would like to play the master; small and great expediencies and elaborations, permeated with the musty odour of old family medicines and old-wife wisdom;