And Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through … — Thus Spake Zarathustra

Thus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche

And Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through forests and past moory bottoms; as it happeneth, however, to every one who meditateth upon hard matters, he trod thereby unawares upon a man. And lo, there spurted into his face all at once a cry of pain, and two curses and twenty bad invectives, so that in his fright he raised his stick and also struck the trodden one. Immediately afterwards, however, he regained his composure, and his heart laughed at the folly he had just committed.

Place: ¶3051
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