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1 66 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, II When power becometh gracious and steppeth down into visibleness beauty I call such stepping down.

And of no one I demand beauty with the same eagerness as just from thee, thou powerful one. Let thy goodness be thy last self -overcoming !

Everything evil I expect from thee; therefore I demand from thee what is good.

Verily, I laughed many a time over the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had lame paws !

Thou shalt strive after the virtue of the pillar. It ever getteth more beautiful and tender, but inside ever harder and more able to bear the load, the higher it ariseth.

Yea, thou august one, one day thou shalt be beautiful and hold the mirror before thine own beauty.

Then thy soul will quiver with god-like desires; and there will be adoration even in thy vanity !

For this is the secret of the soul. Not until the hero hath left it, is it approached in dream by beyond-hero."

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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