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Full Idea
How much pleasure we get from morality! Just think what a river of agreeable tears has flowed at tales of noble, generous actions.
Gist of Idea
We get enormous pleasure from tales of noble actions
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 091)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.63
A Reaction
How can anyone not adore Nietzsche? The pleasure of a noble deed is the most piercing and the deepest pleasure known to us. It isn't 'just' a pleasure.