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Full Idea
One has no right to 'happiness': the individual human being is in precisely the same case as the lowest worm.
Gist of Idea
We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §759)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.399
A Reaction
This seems an obvious truth, but nicely made clear. It is, I suppose, aimed at Christians and socialists.