Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
IV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate§321 He who finds virtue an easy matter, ultimately laughs at it. Seriousness cannot be maintained once virtue is attained. As soon as a man has reached virtue, he leaps beyond it — whither? Into devilry.
Meanwhile, how intelligent all our evil tendencies and impulses have become! How much scientific inquisitiveness torments them! So many fishhooks of knowledge!