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More beautiful but less valuable.  Picturesque morality: this is the morality of steeply ascending emotions, of abrupt transitions, of pathetic, importunate, fearsome, solemn sounds and gestures. It is the semi-savage stage of morality: one must not let its aesthetic charm lure one into according it a higher rank.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Daybreak
Book II - Aphorism # 141

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