It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Neither the uneducated and uninformed of the truth, nor yet those who never make an end of their education, will be able ministers of State; not the former, because they have no single aim of duty which is the rule of all their actions, private as well as public; nor the latter, because they will not act at all except upon compulsion, fancying that they are already dwelling apart in the islands of the blest.” Republic

When stepped on, the worm curls up. That is a clever thing to do. Thus it reduces its chances of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility. Twilight of the Idols

A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play. Beyond Good and Evil