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Updated: June 27, 2025

Both Nietzsche and Disraeli have clearly recognised that this patient of theirs is suffering from weakness and not from sinfulness, for which latter some kind of strength may still be required; both are therefore entirely opposed to a further dieting him down to complete moral emaciation, but are, on the contrary, prescribing a tonic, a roborating, a natural regime for him advice for which both doctors have been reproached with Immorality by their contemporaries as well as by posterity.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thoughts out of Season Part I