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10 - Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche · The Philosophy Insights Collection

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  Part one, Chapter ten, war and warriors by our best enemies. We
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  do not want to be spared, nor by those either, whom we love
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  from the very heart. So let me tell you the truth, my brethren,
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  in more, I love you from the very heart. I am and
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  was ever your counterpart, and I am also your best enemy. So let
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  me tell you the truth. I know the hatred and envy of your hearts.
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  You are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy, then
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  be great enough not to be ashamed of them. And if you cannot be
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  saints of knowledge, then I pray you be at least its warriors. They
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  are the companions and forerunners of such saintship. I see many soldiers, could
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  I but see many warriors? Uniform? One calleth what they wear? May
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  it not be uniform what they therewith hide. Ye shall be those whose eyes
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  ever seek for an enemy, for your enemy, and with some of you
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  there is hatred at first sight your enemy. Shall you seek, your war?
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  Shall you wage, and for the sake of your thoughts, And if
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  your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph. Thereby you shall love
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  peace as a means to new wars, and the short piece more than the
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  long. You. I advise not to work but to fight. You.
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  I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a
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  fight. Let your peace be a victory. One can only be silent and
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  sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow. Otherwise one praateth and quarreleth.
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  Let your peace be a victory. You say, it is the good cause
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  which halloweth. Even more I say unto you, it is the good war
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  which halloweth every cause. War and courage have done more great things than charity.
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  Not your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims. What
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  is good you ask to be brave is good. Let the little girls say,
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  to be good is what is pretty and at the same time touching.
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  They call you heartless, But your heart is true, and I love the
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  bashfulness of your your good will. You are ashamed of your flow, and
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  others are ashamed of their ebb You are ugly, Well, then, my
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  brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly. And
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  when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty. And in your
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  sublimity there is wickedness. I know you. In wickedness. The haughty man
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  and the weakling meet, but they misunderstand one another. I know you.
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  You shall have only enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised.
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  You must be proud of your enemies. Then the successes of your enemies
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  are also your successes resistance. That is the distinction of the slave. Let
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  your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying to the good warrior.
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  Soundeth, thou shalt pleasanter than I will, And all that is dear
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  unto you, you shall have it first commanded unto you. Let your love
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  to life be loved to your highest hope, And let your highest hope be
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  the highest thought of life. Your highest thought, however, ye shall have
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  it commanded unto you by me. And it is this man is something that
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  is to be surpassed. So live your life of obedience and of war.
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  What matter about long life? What warrior wisheth to be spared? I spare
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  you not. I love you from my very heart, my brethren in war.
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  Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one, Chapter ten