Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
IV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate§329 Have I thereby done any harm to virtue? Just as little as anarchists do to princes: only since they have been shot at do they once more sit securely on their thrones. For thus it has always been and will ever be: one cannot do a thing a better service than to persecute it and to run it down — This is what I have done.