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Excerpt from On the Tracks of Life, the Immorality of Morality
Well then, I have succeeded in discovering in contemporary Europe a great beauty, and it is this: over the heads of the Romanticists, the Buddhists, and all the other stampeders from reality, there is gradually but surely forming itself in all countries a superior class of men, who, observing the gulf between them and their fellow-men, very soon give up the idea of enlightening the unenlightables, and over the frontiers of their countries heartily shake hands with each other. Brought together by similar views, passions, and experiences; kept together by mutual esteem and the common desire for power hardened together on many a battlefield, where defeats were more frequent than victories, they must not be mistaken for ordinary cosmopolitans, for hare-brained and soft-hearted peace makers - I would rather compare them to a new Jesuitical Order, an order of which the loose connections may soon become firmer, and which has even now adopted some of the principles of the great Loyola, and this as the first one: Plus valet exquisita prudentia cum mediocri sanctitate quam cum minori prudentia maior sanctitas.
Better great prudence with little holiness than great holiness with little prudence.
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