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  Part one, Chapter sixteen. Neighbor love. Ye crowd around your neighbor and
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  have fine words for it. But I say unto you, your neighbor love
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  is your bad love of yourselves. Ye flee unto your neighbor from yourselves,
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  and would fain make a virtue thereof. But I fathom your unselfishness, that
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  thou is older than the eye, that thou hast been consecrated, but not
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  yet the eye. So man presseth nigh unto his neighbor. Do I advise
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  you to neighbor love? Rather, do I advise you to neighbor flight and
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  to furthest. Love higher than love to your neighbor is love to the furthest
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  and future ones. Higher still than love to men is love to things and
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  phantoms. The phantom that runeth on before thee my brother, is fairer than
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  thou. Why dost thou not give unto it thy flesh and thy bones?
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  But thou fearest and runnest unto thy neighbor. Ye cannot endure it with yourselves,
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  and do not love yourselves sufficiently. So ye seek to mislead your neighbor
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  into love, and would fain guild yourselves with his error, would that ye
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  could not endure it with any kind of near ones or their neighbors. Then
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  would ye have to create your friend and his overflowing heart out of yourselves.
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  Ye call in a witness when ye want to speak well of yourselves, And
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  when ye have misled him to think well of you, ye also think well
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  of yourselves. Not only doth he lie who speaketh contrary to his knowledge,
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  but more so he who speaketh contrary to his ignorance. And thus speak ye
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  of yourselves in your intercourse, and belie your neighbor with yourselves saith the fool
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  association with men spoilt the character, especially when one hath none. The one
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  goeth to his neighbor because he seeketh himself, and the other because he would
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  fain lose himself. Your bad love to yourselves maketh solitude a prison to you.
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  The furthest ones are they who pay for your love to the near ones.
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  And when there are but five of you together, a sixth must always
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  die. I do not love your festivals either. Too many actors found I
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  there, and even the spectators often behaved like actors. Not the neighbor do
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  I teach you, But the friend Let the Friend be the festival of the
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  earth to you, and a foretaste of the Superman. I teach you the
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  Friend and his overflowing heart. But one must know how to be a sponge,
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  if one would be loved by overflowing arts. I teach you the Friend
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  in whom the world standeth complete, a capsule of the good, the creating
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  Friend, who hath always a complete world to bestow. And as the world
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  unrolled itself for him, so rolleth it together again for him in rings,
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  as the growth of good through evil, as the growth of purpose out of
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  chance. Let the future and the furthest be the motive of thy day.
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  In thy Friend, thou shalt love the Superman as thy motive. My brethren,
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  I advise you not to neighbor love. I advise you to furthest love.
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  Thus spake Zarathustra, end Part one, Chapter sixteen,