Fifth Chapter Natural History of Morals section 197

[venal_anatomica]

The beast of prey and the man of prey( for instance, Caesar Borgia) are fundamentally misunderstood, "nature" is misunderstood, so long as one seeks a "morbidness" in the constitution of these healthiest of all tropical monsters and growths, or even an innate "hell" in them- as almost all moralists have done hitherto. Does it not seem that there is a hatred of the virgin forest and of the tropics among moralists? And that the "tropical man" must be discredited at all costs, whether as disease and deterioration mankind, or as his own hell and self-torture? And why? In favor of the "temperate zones"? In favor of the temperate men? The "moral"? The mediocre?-This for the chapter: "Morals as Timidity."

Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche