Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!" in the context of "Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak, § 20)Daybreak, R.J. Hollingdale trans., Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 18. Available at https://www.scribd.com/doc/37646181/Nietzsche-Daybreak" to mean that wisdom is timeless.