Nietzsche uses the term 'ressentiment' to describe the feelings of slaves, and more pressingly Christians, towards the passionate, immoderate, and heroic behaviour of others.
But need I confess this to you, my dear friend, who have so often endured the anguish of witnessing my sudden transitions from sorrow to immoderate joy, and from sweet melancholy to violent passions?
Is not their folly the by-word of the libertines, who relax in their society; and do not men of sense continually lament, that an immoderate fondness for dress and dissipation carries the mother of a family for ever from home?