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 306 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III

From all animals man hath plundered their virtues. The reason is that man hath had the hardest life of all animals.

Only the birds surpass him. And if man would learn to fly in addition, alas, whither would his lust of prey fly upwards !

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Thus would I have man and woman : fit for warfare the one, fit for giving birth the other, but both fit for dancing with head and legs.

And be that day reckoned lost on which we did not dance once ! And be every truth called false with which no laughter was connected !

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Your concluding of marriages see to it that it be not a bad concluding! Ye have concluded too quickly ; thus followeth therefrom adultery !

And yet better is adultery than bending marriage, lying in marriage ! Thus spake a woman unto me : ' True, I brake marriage, but first marriage brake me ! '

Ill-coupled ones I always found to be the worst revengeful. They take revenge on the whole world, because they no longer walk about singly.

Therefore I will that honest ones speak unto each

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