The master expresses themselves more openly, while the slave is more restrained and lowkey
While the noble live in trust and openness with themselves, the slave is not honest or straightforward with themselves. The slave tends to stay lowkey. They understand how to keep silent, how not to forget, how to wait, and how to be provisionally self-deprecating and humble. It is inevitable that these people of resentment will eventually become more clever than any noble people. They cannot conquer immediately, so they develop resentment can only plot and scheme. They will also have far more honor for cleverness.
Wheres with noble people cleverness can easily acquire a subtle flavor of luxury and subtlety—for here it is far less essential than the perfect functioning of the regulating unconscious instincts or even than a certain imprudence, perhaps a bold recklessness whether in the face of danger or of the enemy, or that enthusiastic impulsiveness in anger, love, reverence, gratitude, and revenge by which noble people have at all times recognized one another. If Resentment were to appear in the noble, then it would be expressed immediately, and therefore does not slowly poison: on the other hand, it may fail to appear at all in weak and impotent.
References
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1887). On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo First Essay Good and Evil Good and Bad (Epub p. 46). New York, NY: Vintage Books.
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