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Full Idea
The happiness whose proper name on earth the modest believe is: 'Well, not bad'.
Gist of Idea
Modest people express happiness as 'Not bad'
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 05[7])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.106
A Reaction
Alexei Sayle expresses it in the English slogan 'Mustn't grumble'. Nietzsche certainly had the English in mind. Nietzsche seems to have the romantic tendency to think that only something completely new and original can bring happiness.