Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
IV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate§316 Observe the hypocritical colour in which all civil institutions are painted, just as if they were the offshoots of morality — for instance: marriage, work, one’s profession, patriotism, the family, order and rights. But as they were all established in favour of the most mediocre type of man, to protect him from exceptions and the need of exceptions, one must not be surprised to find them full of lies.