304 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, III
And him whom ye do not teach to fly, teach how to fall quicker!
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I love the brave. But it is not enough to be a swordsman, one must also know against whom to use the sword !
And often there is more bravery in one's keeping quiet and going past, in order to spare one's self for a worthier enemy !
Ye shall have only enemies who are to be hated, but not enemies who are to be despised. Ye must be proud of your enemy. Thus I taught you once before.
Ye shall reserve yourselves for the worthier enemy, O my friends ! Therefore ye have to pass by many things.
In particular ye have to pass by much rabble that maketh a din of people and peoples in your ears.
Keep your eye pure from their For and Against ! Much right is there and much wrong. Whoever looketh on, waxeth angry.
To look on, to use one's sword in that case it is one and the same thing. Therefore depart into the forests and put your sword to sleep !
Go your ways. And let people and peoples go theirs ! Verily, dark ways, on which not a single hope lighteneth any longer!
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