Slave-morality is essentially the morality of utility. Here is the seat of the origin of the famous antithesis "good" and "_evil":_--power and dangerousness are assumed to reside in the evil, a certain dreadfulness, subtlety, and strength, which do not admit of being despised. According to slave-morality, therefore, the "evil" man arouses fear; according to master-morality, it is precisely the "good" man who arouses fear and seeks to arouse it, while the bad man is regarded as the despicable being. The contrast attains its maximum when, in accordance with the logical consequences of slave-morality, a shade of depreciation--it may be slight and well-intentioned--at last attaches itself even to the "good" man of this morality; because, according to the servile mode of thought, the good man must in any case be the _safe_ man: he is good-natured, easily deceived, perhaps a little stupid, _un bonhomme._ Everywhere that slave-morality gains the ascendency, language shows a tendency to approximate the significations of the words "good" and "stupid."--A last fundamental difference: the desire for _freedom,_ the instinct for happiness and the refinements of the feeling of liberty belong as necessarily to slave-morals and morality, as artifice and enthusiasm in reverence and devotion are the regular symptoms of an aristocratic mode of thinking and estimating. 231 A _species_ originates, and a type becomes established and strong in the long struggle with essentially constant _unfavourable_ conditions. On the other hand, it is known by the experience of breeders that species which receive superabundant nourishment, and in general a surplus of protection and care, immediately tend in the most marked way to develop variations, and are fertile in prodigies and monstrosities (also in monstrous vices). 234 I submit that egoism belongs to the essence of a noble soul, I mean the unalterable belief that to a being such as "we," other beings must naturally be in subjection, and have to sacrifice themselves. 240 Woman would like to believe that love can do _everything_--it is the _superstition_ peculiar to her. Alas, he who knows the heart finds out how poor, helpless, pretentious, and blundering even the best and deepest love is--he finds that it rather _destroys_ than saves! 246 Signs of nobility: never to think of lowering our duties to the rank of duties for everybody; to be unwilling to renounce or to share our responsibilities; to count our prerogatives, and the exercise of them, among our _duties._ 249 A man strives after great things, looks upon every one whom he encounters on his way either as a means of advance, or a delay and hindrance--or as a temporary resting-place. 249 If one wishes to praise at all, it is a delicate and at the same time a noble self-control, to praise only where one _does not_ agree.... 254 All society makes one somehow, somewhere, or sometimes--"commonplace." 254-255 _The noble soul has reverence for itself._ 256