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  Part one, Chapter thirteen, Chastity. I love the forest. It is
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  bad to live in cities. There there are too many of the lustful.
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  Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer than into the
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  dreams of a lustful woman? And just look at these men. Their eye
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  saith it. They know nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman.
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  Filth is at the bottom of their souls. And alas if their filth
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  has still spirit in it, would that you were perfect, at least as
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  animals. But to animals belongeth innocence. Do I counsel you to slay your
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  instincts? I counsel you to innocence in your instincts? Do I counsel you
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  to chastity? Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost device
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  these are continent, to be sure, But doggish lust looketh enviously out of
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  all that they do, even into the heights of their virtue, and into
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  their cold spirit? Doth this creature follow them with its discord? And how
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  nicely can doggish lust beg for a piece of spirit when a piece of flesh
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  is denied? It? Ye love tragedies and all that breaketh the heart,
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  But I am distrustful of your doggish lust. Ye have two cruel eyes,
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  and ye look wantonly toward the sufferers. Hath not your lust just disguised itself
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  and taking the name of fellow suffering? And also this parable give I unto
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  you. Not a few who meant to cast out their devil went thereby into
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  the swine themselves. To whom chastity is difficult. It is to be dissuaded,
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  lest it become the road to hell, to filth and lust of soul.
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  Do I speak of filthy things? That is not the worst thing for
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  me to do. Not when the truth is filthy, But when it is
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  shallow, doth the discerning one go unwillingly into its waters. Verily there are
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  chaste ones. From their very nature. They are gentler of heart, and
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  laugh better and oftener than you. They laugh also at chastity, and ask
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  what is chastity? Is chastity not folly? But the folly came unto us,
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  and not we unto it. We offered that guest heart and heart.
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  Now it dwelleth within us. Let it stay as long as it will.
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  Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one, chapter thirteen,