On the suppression of the passions

…an age marked by an incapacity for bad manners, so that even an insult was accepted and returned with obliging words.

Nevertheless, eventually passion itself will be reached this way, and our progeny will be genuinely savage and not just savage and unruly in demeanor.

Nietzsche, The Gay Science, p.60

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