«The most fortunate and satisfactory configuration of the political and social situation can scarcely be found among the Greeks; this goal is borne in mind by our visionaries of the future. Terrible! For it must be judged according to the following criterion: the more spirit, the greater the suffering (as the Greeks show). Therefore, too: the more stupidity, the more well-being. The philistine of culture is the most satisfied creature ever seen under the sun, and must have a stupidity commensurate with it»

(Nietzsche, PF  II, 1ª, 3 [65])