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  Part one, Chapter fifteen, The thousand and one Goals. Many lands saw
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  Zarathustra and many peoples. Thus he discovered the good and bad of many peoples.
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  No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and bad. No
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  people could live without first valuing. If a people will maintain itself, however,
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  it must not value as its neighbor valueth. Much that passed for good
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  with one people was regarded with scorn and contempt by another. Thus I found
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  it much found I hear called bad, which was there decked with purple honors.
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  Never did the one neighbor understand the other. Ever did his soul marvel
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  at his neighbor's delusion and wickedness. A table of excellencies hangeth over every people
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  lo. It is the table of their triumphs lo. It is the voice
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  of their will to power. It is laudable what they think hard? What
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  is it dispensable and hard? They call good? And what relieveth in the
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  direst distress, The unique and hardest of all they extoll as holy. Whatever
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  maketh them rule and conquer and shine. To the dismay and envy of their
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  neighbors, they regard as the high and foremost thing, the test and the
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  meaning of all else. Verily, my brother, if thou knewest but a
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  people's need, its land, its sky, and its neighbor, then wouldst
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  thou divine the law of its surmountings, and wyat climmeth up that ladder to
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  its hope. Always shalt thou be the foremost and prominent above others. No
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  one shall thy jealous soul love, except a friend that made the soul of
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  a Greek thrill. Thereby went he his way to greatness, to speak truth
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  and be skillful with bow and arrow. So seemed it alike pleasing and hard
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  to the people from whom cometh my name, the name which is alike pleasing
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  and hard to me. To honor, follow and mother, and from the
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  root of the soul, to do their will. This table of surmounting hung
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  another people over them, and became powerful and permanent, thereby to have fidelity,
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  and for the sake of fidelity, to risk honor and blood, even
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  in evil and dangerous courses. Teaching itself, so another people mastered itself,
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  and thus mastering itself, became pregnant and heavy with great hopes. Verily,
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  men have given unto themselves, all their good and bad. Verily, they
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  took it not they found it not, it came not unto them as a
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  voice from heaven. Values did man only assign to things in order to maintain
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  himself. He created only the significance of things, a human significance. Therefore
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  callth he himself man, that is the valuator. Valuing is creating. Hear
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  it you creating ones. Valuation itself is the treasure and jewel of the valued
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  things. Through valuation only is their value. And without valuation, the nut
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  of existence would be hollow. Hear it, ye, creating ones? Change
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  of values, that is, change of the creating ones? Always doth he
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  destroy? Who hath to be a creator? Creating ones were first of all
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  peoples, and only in late times individuals. Verily, the individual himself is
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  still the latest creation. Peoples once hung over them, tables of the good,
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  love which would rule, and love which would obey, created for themselves
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  such tables. Older is the pleasure in the herd than the pleasure in the
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  ego. And as long as the good conscience is for the herd, the
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  bad conscience only saith ego. Verily, the crafty ego, the loveless one
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  that seeketh its advantage in the advantage of many. It is not the origin
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  of the herd, but its ruin loving ones? Was it always creating ones
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  that created good and bad? Fire of love gloweth in the names of all
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  the virtues and fire of wrath many lands saw Zarathustra and many peoples. No
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  greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than the creations of the loving ones?
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  Good and bad? Are they called? Verily a prodigy? Is this power
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  of praising and blaming? Tell me, you, brethren, who will master
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  it? For me? Who will put a fetter on the thousand necks of
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  this animal? A thousand goals have there been hitherto for a thousand peoples?
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  Have there been? Only the fetter? For the thousand necks? Is still
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  lacking? There is lacking the one goal. As yet humanity hath not a
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  goal. But pray, tell me, my brethren, if the goal of
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  humanity be still lacking, is there not also still lacking humanity itself? Thus
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  spake Zarathustra. End of Part one, Chapter fifteen,