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02 - Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche · Logic Library

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  Part one, Chapter two, the academic chairs of virtue. People commended unto
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  Zarathustra, a wise man, as one who could discourse well about sleep and
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  virtue. Greatly was he honored and rewarded for it, and all the youths
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  sat before his chair. To him went Zarathustra, and sat among the youths
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  before his chair, And thus spake the wise man respect and modesty in presence
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  of sleep, that is the first thing, and go out of the way
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  of all who sleep badly and keep awake at night. Modest is even the
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  thief in the presence of sleep, he always stealeth softly through the night.
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  Immodest however, is the night watchman immodestly he carrieth his horn. No smart
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  is it to sleep. It is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all
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  day. Ten times a day must thou overcome thyself that causeth wholesome weariness and
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  his poppy to the soul. Ten times must thou reconcile again with thyself for
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  overcoming his bitterness and badly sleep. The unreconciled ten truths must thou find during
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  the day, Otherwise wilt thou seek truth during the night, and thy soul
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  will have been hungry ten times. Must thou laugh during the day and be
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  cheerful? Otherwise thy stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb thee in
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  the night. Few people know it, But one must have all the virtues
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  in order to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit
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  adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid servant? All that would ill accord
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  with good sleep? Even if one have all the virtues, there is still
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  one thing needful, to send the virtues themselves to sleep at the right time,
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  that they may not quarrel with one another. The good females, and
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  about thee thou unhappy one peace with God and thy neighbor. So desireth good
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  sleep, and peace also with thy neighbour's devil, otherwise it will haunt thee
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  in the night. Honor to the government and obedience, and also to the
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  crooked government. So desireth good sleep? How can I help it? If
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  power liketh to walk on crooked legs, he who leadeth his sheep to the
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  greenest pasture shall always be for me the best shepherd. So doth it accord
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  with good sleep? Many honors I want not nor great treasures. They excite
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  the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little
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  treasure. A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one.
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  But they must come and go at the right time. So doth it accord
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  with good sleep? Well? Also, do the poor and spirit please me?
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  They promote sleep. Blessed are they, especially if one always give in
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  to them. Thus passeth the day unto the virtuous. When night cometh,
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  then I take good care not to summon sleep. It disliketh to be summoned
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  sleep the Lord of the virtues. But I think of what I have done
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  and thought during the day. Thus ruminating, patient as a cow, I
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  ask myself, what were thy ten overcomings? And what were the ten reconciliations,
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  and the ten truths? And the ten laughters with which my heart enjoyed
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  itself. Thus pondering and cradled by forty thoughts, it overtaketh me all at
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  once, Sleep, the unsummoned, the Lord of the virtues. Sleep tappeth
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  on mine eye, and it turneth heavy. Sleep toucheth my mouth, and
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  it remaineth open verily on soft souls. Doth it come to me the dearest
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  of thieves, and stealeth from me my thoughts stupid? Do I then stand
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  like this academic chair? But not much longer do I then stand? I
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  already lie. When Zarathustra heard the wise man thus speak, he laughed in
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  his heart, for thereby had light dawned upon him, and thus spakey to
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  his heart. A fool seemeth this wise man with his forty thoughts. But
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  I believe he knoweth well how to sleep happy, even as he who liveth
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  near this wise man. Such sleep is contagious, even through a thick wall.
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  It is contagious. A magic resiteth even in his academic chair. And
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  not in vain did the youth sit before the preacher of virtue. His wisdom
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  is to keep awake in order to sleep well and verily. If life had
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  no sense, and I had to choose nonsense, this would be the desirablest
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  nonsense for me. Also now know I well what people sought formerly above all
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  else, when they sought teachers of virtue good sleep. They sought for themselves
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  and poppyheaded virtues to promote it to all those belotted sages of the academic chairs.
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  Wisdom was sleep without dreams. They knew no higher significance of life even
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  at present. To be sure, there are some like this, preacher of
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  virtue, and not always so honorable. But their time is past, and
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  not much longer do they stand there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy
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  ones, for they shall soon nod to sleep. Thus spake Zarathustra, and
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  of Part one, Chapter two,