[1] "Ancient morality was essentially national and exclusive.
Its creed was that a man is born not for himself, but for
his parents, his family, and the state. The state was
surrounded by others with which, unless some treaty had
been concluded, it was at war. To do as much good as
possible to one's own state, and as much harm as possible
to all other states, was therefore the whole duty of a
man."--_Ecce Homo,_ p. 125, small edition. (The student
will do well to read the whole chapter in which these
sentences occur.)