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 3O2 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III

self gainsay all weariness and all that weariness taught him to teach !

Only, my brethren, drive the dogs away from him, the lazy sneaks, and all the swarming flies

All the swarming flies, the 'educated,' who feast luxuriously on the sweat of every hero !

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I draw around me circles and holy boundaries. Ever fewer mount with me ever higher mountains. I build a mountain chain out of ever holier mountains.

But wherever ye mount with me, O my brethren, see to it that no parasite mount with you !

Parasite that is a worm, a creeping, bent one that wisheth to fatten upon your hidden sores and wounds.

And this is its art, that it findeth out ascending souls, where they are weary. In your sorrow and bad mood, in your tender shame, he buildeth his loathsome nest.

Wherever the strong is weak, and the noble much- too-mild there he buildeth his loathsome nest. The parasite dwelleth where the great one hath small hidden wounds.

What is the highest kind of all that is, and what is the lowest ? The parasite is the lowest kind. But whoever is of the highest kind feedeth the most parasites.

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