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 OF THE VIRTUOUS 13!

Alas, my friends ! That your self be in your action as a mother is in the child, that shall be for me your word of virtue !

Verily, I have taken from you perhaps an hundred words and the dearest playthings of your virtue ; and now ye are angry with me as children are.

They played on the seashore, then came a wave and swept all their toys away into the depth : now they cry.

But the same wave shall bring them new playthings and spread before them new coloured shells.

Thus they will be comforted ; and like them ye also, my friends, shall have your comforts and new col- oured shells ! "

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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