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 60 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I

Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars, and the short peace better than the long.

I do not advise you to work, but to fight. I do not advise you to conclude peace, but to conquer. Let your work be a fight, your peace a victory !

One cannot be silent and sit still unless one hath bow and arrow. Otherwise one talketh and quarrel- leth. Let your peace be a victory!

Ye say, a good cause will hallow even war? I say unto you : a good war halloweth every cause.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your pity, but your bravery, hath hitherto saved those who had met with an accident.

What is good ? ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girlies talk : 'To be good is what is sweet and touching at the same time.'

They call you heartless : but your heart is genuine, and I love the shame of your heartiness. Ye are ashamed of your tide, and others are ashamed of their ebb.

Ye are ugly ? Well then, my brethren ! Wrap the sublime round yourselves, the mantle of what is ugly !

And when your soul waxeth great, it waxeth haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness. I know you.

In wickedness the haughty one and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand each other. I know you.

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