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  Part two, Chapter forty three. Manly prudence, not the height. It
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  is the declivity that is terrible, the declivity where the gaze shooteth downwards and
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  the hand graspeth upwards. There doth the heart become giddy through its double will?
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  Ah, friends, do ye divine also my heart's double will? This
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  this is my declivity and my danger, that my gaze shooteth towards the summit,
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  and my hand would fain clutch and lean on the depth to man,
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  clingeth my will with chains? Do I bind myself to man? Because I
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  am pulled upwards to the superman. For thither doth my other will tend?
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  And therefore do I live blindly among men as if I knew them, Not
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  that my hand may not entirely lose belief in firmness. I know not you
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  men. This gloom and consolation is often spread around me. I sit at
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  the gateway for every rogue, and ask who wisheth to deceive me? This
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  is my first manly prudence, that I allow myself to be deceived, so
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  as not to be on my guard against deceivers. If I were on my
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  guard against man, how could man be an anchor to my ball? Too?
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  Easily would I be pulled upwards in a way. This providence is over
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  my fate that I have to be without foresight. And he who would not
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  languish amongst men must learn to drink out of all glasses. And he who
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  would keep clean amongst men must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.
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  And thus spake I often to myself for consolation, courage, cheer up
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  old heart, and unhappiness hath failed to befall thee enjoy that as thy happiness.
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  This, however, is mine. Other manly prudence, I am more
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  forbearing to the vein than to the proud, is not wounded. Vanity the
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  mother of all tragedies. Where however pride is wounded, there there groweth up
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  something better than pride. But life may be fair to behold its gay must
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  be well played. For that purpose, however, it needeth good actors.
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  Good actors have I found all the vain once they play, and wish people
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  to be fond of beholding them. All. Their spirit is in this wish.
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  They represent themselves. They invent themselves in their neighborhood. I like to
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  look upon life. It cureth of melancholy. Therefore am I forbearing to the
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  vein, because they are the physicians of my melancholy, and keep me attached
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  to man as to a drama. And further, who conceiveth the full depth
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  of the modesty of the vain man, I am favorable to him and sympathetic
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  on account of his modesty. From you? Would he learn his belief in
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  himself. He feedeth upon your glances, he eateth, prays out of your
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  hands your lies. Doth even he believe when you lie favorably about him or
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  in its depths? Scieth his heart? What am I? And if that
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  be the true virtue, which is unconscious of itself, while the vein man
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  is uncommon of his modesty. This is, however, my third manly prudence.
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  I am not put out of conceit with the wicked by your timorousness.
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  I am happy to see the marvels the warm sun, hatcheth, tigers and
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  palms and rattlesnakes. Also among men there is a beautiful brood of the warm
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  sun, and much that is marvelous in the wicked. In truth, as
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  your wisest did not seem to me, so very wise, so found I
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  also human wickedness below the fame of it, And oft did I ask,
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  with a shake of the head, why still rattle? Ye, rattlesnakes.
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  Verily, there is still a future even for evil. And the warmest south
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  is still undiscovered by man. How many things are now called the worst wickedness,
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  which are only twelve feet broad and three months long. However, will
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  greater dragons come into the world? For that the superman may not lack his
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  dragon, the super dragon that is worthy of him. There must still much
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  warm sun glow on moist virgin forests. Out of your wildcats, must tigers
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  have evolved, and out of your poisoned toads crocodiles. For the good hunters
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  shall have a good hunt. And verily, ye good and just in you
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  there is much to be laughed at, and especially your fear of what hath
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  hitherto been called the devil. So alien are ye in your souls to what
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  is great that to you the superman would be frightful in his goodness, And
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  ye wise and knowing ones, ye would flee from the solar glow of the
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  wisdom in which the Superman joyfully bathe his nakedness. Ye highest men who have
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  come within my ken, this is my doubt of you and my secret laughter.
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  I suspect you would call my superman a devil. Ah. I became
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  tired of those highest and best ones, from their height, that I longed
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  to be up out and away to the superman. A horror came over me
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  when I saw those best ones naked. Then there grew for me the pinions
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  to soar away into distant futures, into more distant futures, into more southern
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  souths than ever artists dreamed of. Thither, where gods are ashamed of all
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  clothes but disguise. Do I want to see you, ye, neighbors and
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  fellow men, and well attired, and vain and estimable as the good and
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  just, and disguise, while I myself sit amongst you, that I may
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  mistake you and myself, for that is mine, my last manly prudence.
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  Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Chapter forty three