These lines are counter intuitive to the contemporary American scale of values. Democracy valorizes what is common, the equality of citizenship. I think this is a critical dimension, to be defended – at the level of political participation in our society. By universal agreement every citizen has a voice, in the form of a vote, which shall be counted. At least some of us still insist upon that agreement.

At the same time there are differences, great differences in the abilities, the “set-ups” if you will between us individual members of our species. Some of us are comfortable, perform best, when given a defined regimen of activities, – a job. Others, proportionately a few, are more at comfortable, better suited, to planning strategy, to intuiting what combination of elements, a particular arrangement of factors, result in a more beautiful, or a more efficient outcome.

The out-of-the-ordinary individual “knows” deeply, and with a certain clarity, what they are, and the role  he/she is best suited for. This is nothing other than nature. “Free will” plays no part; It’s not a choice. Nietzsche writes the relationship of a rare individual to others is simply “justice itself.”

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Egoism belongs
to the essence of the noble soul.

I mean that firm belief
that other beings will, by nature,
have to be subordinate to a being “like us”
and will have to
sacrifice themselves.

The noble soul
accepts this fact of its egoism
without any question-mark, and also without feeling any harshness,
compulsion, or caprice in it,
but rather as something that may well be grounded
in the primordial law of things.

If the noble soul
were to try to name this phenomenon,
it would call it
“justice itself.”

It admits to itself,
under certain circumstances
(that at first give it pause),
that there are others with rights equal to its own.

As soon as it is clear
about this question of rank,
it will move among these equals and “equally righted”
with an assured modesty and a gentle reverence
equal to how it treats itself,
in accordance with an inborn, celestial mechanics
that all stars know so well.

This is just another piece of its egoism,
this finesse and self-limitation
in dealing with equals
– every star is an egoist of this sort.

Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by Judith Norman, aphorism 265