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Full Idea
One has renounced grand life when one renounces war.
Gist of Idea
To renounce war is to renounce the grand life
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 4.3)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.44
A Reaction
Nietzsche was a medical orderly in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war, so he had seen it at first hand. I think the machine gun and the heavy bomber would have changed his attitude to warfare. He sounds a bit silly now. Nostalgia for the Iliad.