2O THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I
most? Him who breaketh to pieces their tables of values, the breaker, the criminal : but he is the , creator.
Companions the creator seeketh and not corpses, neither herds nor faithful men. Such as will be creators with him the creator seeketh, those who write new values on new tables.
Companions the creator seeketh, and such as will reap with him : for with him everything is ripe for harvest. But he lacketh the hundred sickles so that he teareth up the ears and is angry.
Companions the creator seeketh, and such as know how to whet their sickles. Destroyers they will be called and despisers of good and evil. But they are those who reap and cease from labour.
Such as will be creators with him Zarathustra seeketh, such as reap with him and cease from labour with him : what hath he to do with herds and herds- men and corpses !
And thou, my first companion, farewell ! Well I buried thee in thy hollow tree, well I hid thee from the wolves.
But I part from thee, the time is past. Between dawn and dawn a new truth hath revealed itself to me.
I am not to be a herdsman not yet a grave-digger. I am not even to speak unto the folk again. I have spoken unto a dead one for the last time.
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