An idea from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Describe a life with no risk and no reaching, and a crowd will shout for it. Give us that one, they call. Make us into those men and keep the rest for yourself. What was meant as the worst thing he could describe came back as a request.

From Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

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