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 OF GIVING VIRTUE

wings, and there cometh a good message for fine ears.

Ye lonely ones of to-day, ye who stand apart, ye shall one day be a people : from you who have chosen yourselves, a chosen people shall arise : and from it beyond-man.

Verily, a place of healing shall earth become ! And already a new odour lieth round it, an odour which bringeth salvation and a new hope."

��Zarathustra having spoken these words was silent like one who hath not yet uttered his last word ; a long while he doubtfully balanced the stick in his hand. And last he spake thus, his voice having again changed :

" Alone I now go, my disciples ! Ye go also, and alone. I would have it so.

Verily, I counsel you : depart from me and defend yourselves from Zarathustra ! And better still : be ashamed of him. Perhaps he hath deceived you.

The man of perception must not only be able to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.

One ill requiteth one's teacher by always remain- ing only his scholar. Why will ye not pluck at my wreath ?

Ye revere me; but how if your reverence one day

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