Facta Ficta

vitam impendere vero

Nietzsche thinking

[MA-445]

IN THE PRINCE'S SERVICE

To be able to act quite regardlessly it is best for a statesman to carry out his work not for himself but for a prince. The eye of the spectator is dazzled by the splendour of this general disinterestedness, so that it does not see the malignancy and severity which the work of a statesman brings with it.