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  Part one, Chapter nineteen, The Bite of the Adder. One day had
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  Zarathustra fallen asleep under a fig tree, owing to the heat, with his
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  arms over his face, And there came an adder and bit him in the
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  neck, so that Zarathustra screamed with pain. When he had taken his arm
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  from his face, he looked at the serpent, and then did it recognize
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  the eyes of Zarathustra. Wriggled awkwardly and tried to get away. Not at
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  all, said Zarathustra, as yet hast thou not received my thanks, Thou
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  hast awakened me in time. My journey is yet long. Thy journey is
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  short, said the adder. Sadly, my poison is fatal. Zarathustra smiled,
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  When did ever a dragon die of a serpent's poison? Said he,
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  but take thy poison back? Thou art not rich enough to present it to
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  me. Then fell the adder again on his neck and licked his wound.
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  When Zarathustra once told this to his disciples, they asked him, and what,
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  o, Zarathustra, is the moral of thy story? And Zarathustra answered
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  them, thus, the destroyer of morality the good, and just call me
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  my story is immoral. When, however, ye have an enemy, then
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  return him, not good for evil, for that would abash him, but
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  prove that he hath done something good to you, And rather be angry than
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  abash any one. And when ye are cursed, it pleaseth me not that
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  ye should then desire to bless rather the curse a little also, and should
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  a great injustice before you, then do quickly five small ones. Besides hideous
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  to behold is he on whom injustice presseth alone? Did ye ever know?
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  This? Shared injustice is half justice, And he who can bear it shall
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  take the injustice upon himself. A small revenge is humaner than no revenge at
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  all. And if the punishment be not also a right and an honor to
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  the transgressor, I do not like your punishing. Nobler. Is it to
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  own oneself in the wrong than to establish one's right, Especially if one be
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  in the right, only one must be rich enough to do so. I
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  do not like your cold justice. Out of the eye of your judges there
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  always lanceth the executioner and his cold steel. Tell me where find we justice,
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  which is love with seeing eyes. Devise me, then, the love,
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  which not only beareth all punishment, but also all guilt. Devise me,
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  then the justice which acquitteth every one except the judge. And would ye
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  hear this likewise to him who seeketh to be just from the heart, even
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  the lie becometh philanthropy. But how could I be just from the heart?
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  How can I give every one his own? Let this be enough for me.
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  I give unto every one mine own. Finally, my brethren, guard
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  against doing wrong to any anchorite. How could an anchorite forget? How could
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  he requite like a deep well? Is an an anchorite? Easy? Is
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  it to throw in a stone? If it should sink to the bottom,
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  however, tell me who will bring it out again? Guard against injuring the
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  anchorite. If ye have done so, however, well, then kill him
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  also. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one, Chapter nineteen