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Full Idea
Modest, industrious, benevolent, temperate: is that how you would have men? good men? But to me that seems only the ideal slave, the slave of the future.
Gist of Idea
Modesty, industriousness, benevolence and temperance are the virtues of a good slave
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §356)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.195
A Reaction
An extremely good critical observation on virtue theory. Start from scratch, and list the virtues you would want in a good slave.