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If one would like to see our European morality for once as it looks from a distance, and if one would like to measure it against other moralities, past and future, then one has to proceed like a traveler who wants to know how high the towers in a town are: he leaves the city.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Spartam nactus es; hanc exorna (The city of Sparta is your portion; now embellish her) … A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials … There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction, or unreformed existence.

—Edmund Burke