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 424 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, IV

But what the mob did not learn to believe without reason, who could upset that for them by reason ?

In the marketplace one convinceth by gestures. But reasons make the mob mistrustful.

And when in that field truth hath once won a victory, ask yourselves with good mistrust : ' What powerful error hath fought the battle for it ? '

Take care also of scholars ! They hate you. For they are sterile ! They have cold, dried-out eyes. Before them every bird lieth unfeathered.

Such folk boast that they do not lie. But impo- tence to lie is by no means love unto truth. Take care !

Freedom from fever is by no means perception ! I do not credit anything from minds chilled through and through. He who cannot lie, knoweth not what truth is.

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If ye want to rise high, use your own legs ! Do not let yourselves be carried upwards, sit not down on strange backs and heads !

But thou didst mount a horse? Now thou swiftly ridest up unto thy goal ? Up ! my friend. But thy lame leg sitteth with thee on horseback !

When thou hast reached thy goal ; when thou alightest from thy horse ; exactly on thy height, thou higher man ; thou wilt stumble !

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