298 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III
' Let the world be the world ! Lift not even a finger against it ! '
'Let anybody who careth to do so throttle and sting and flay and scrape the folk ! Lift not even a finger against it ! Thereby they shall one day learn to renounce the world.'
'And thine own reason thou shalt thyself throttle and choke it ; for it is a reason of this world. Thereby thou thyself learnest to renounce the world.'
Break, break, O my brethren, these old tables of the pious ! Break into pieces by your speech the saying of the calumniators of the world !
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'Whoever learneth much, unlearneth all violent desiring.' Men whisper that to-day into one another's ears in all dark lanes.
'Wisdom maketh weary. Nothing is worth while. Thou shalt not desire ! ' This new table I found hanging even in open markets.
Break, O my brethren, break also this new table ! The weary of the world have hung it up, and the preachers of death, and the jailers also. For, behold, it is moreover a sermon unto slavery !
Because they learned badly and learned not the best, and learned everything too early and everything too quickly because they dined badly, they have got that soured stomach.
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