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golden oar ! For this I saw once, and gazing upon it wearied not of tears.

Like the sun Zarathustra will go down. Now he sitteth here and waiteth ; round him old broken tables and new tables half written upon.

��Behold, here is a new table ! But where are my brethren to carry it down unto the valley and into hearts of flesh ?

Thus my great love unto the most remote com- mandeth : ' Spare not thy neighbour! Man is a some- thing that must be surpassed.'

There are numerous ways and modes of surpassing. See thou unto it ! But only a buffoon thinketh : ' Man can be passed over also'

Surpass thyself even in thy neighbour ! And a right thou canst take as a prey thou shalt not allow to be given !

What thou dost, no one can do unto thee. Behold, there is no retaliation.

Whoever cannot command himself, shall obey. And many a one can command himself; but there lacketh much in his obeying himself!

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Thus willeth the tribe of noble souls : they wish not to have anything for nothing, least of all, life.

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