The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man…

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 1.

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