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 ?2 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I

Ye love tragedies and all that breaketh the heart to pieces. I am suspicious, however, of your she-dog.

Ye have too cruel eyes and look wantonly for sufferers. Hath not your lust merely been disguised by calling itself pity ?

This other parable I speak unto you : not a few who sought to drive out their devil, went themselves into the swine.

He unto whom chastity is hard is to be counselled against it : in order that it may not become the way unto hell, i.e., to mud and concupiscence of the soul.

Speak I of dirty things ? That is not the worst for me.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow doth he who perceiveth dislike to step into its water.

Verily, there are some who are chaste to the bottom : they are more tender in their hearts, they like to laugh more and oftener than ye do.

They also laugh at chastity, asking : ' What is chastity ! '

Is chastity not folly ? But that folly hath come unto us, not we unto it.

We offered that guest house and heart: now he liveth with us, let him stay as long as he liketh ! "

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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