58 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I
Were they piteous at heart, they would set the minds of their neighbours against life. To be evil that would be their proper goodness.
They yearn to be rid of life : what care they if with their chains and gifts they tie others the faster !
Ye also to whom life is stormf ul labour and unrest : are ye not wearied of life ? Are ye not ripe for the sermon of death ?
All of you to whom stormful labour is dear, and what is swift, what is new and what is strange are dear, ye bear yourselves ill; your industry is retreat and will to forget itself.
If ye had more belief in life ye would yield your- selves the less to the moment. But ye have not enough substance within you to enable you to wait, not even to idle.
Everywhere soundeth the voice of the preachers of death : and the earth is full of those unto whom it is necessary to preach death.
Or : ' eternal life : ' that is the same unto me, if they only pass away quickly ! "
Thus spake Zarathustra.
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