"Here are priests: but although they are mine enemies, pass them quietly and with sleeping swords!" Even among them there are heroes; many of them have suffered too much:--so they want to make others suffer. Bad enemies are they: nothing is more revengeful than their meekness. 106 When a person goeth through fire for his teaching--what doth that prove! It is more, verily, when out of one's own burning cometh one's own teaching! 108 That _your_ very Self be in your action, as the mother is in the child: let that be _your_ formula of virtue! 112 Life is a well of delight; but where the rabble also drink, there all fountains are poisoned. 113 Ye who make the soul giddy, ye preachers of _equality!_ Tarantulas are ye unto me, and secretly revengeful ones! 116 Ye preachers of equality, the tyrant-frenzy of impotence crieth thus in you for "equality": your most secret tyrant-longings disguise themselves thus in virtue-words! Fretted conceit and suppressed envy--perhaps your fathers' conceit and envy: in you break they forth as flame and frenzy of vengeance. 117 Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! They are people of bad race and lineage; out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound. Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Verily, in their souls not only honey is lacking. And when they call themselves "the good and just," forget not, that for them to be Pharisees, nothing is lacking but--power! 118 With these preachers of equality will I not be mixed up and confounded. For thus speaketh justice _unto me:_ "Men are not equal." And neither shall they become so! 118 Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all names of values: weapons shall they be, and sounding signs, that life must again and again surpass itself! 119 Steadfast and beautiful, let us also be enemies, my friends I Divinely will we strive _against_ one another! 120 Hungry, fierce, lonesome, God-forsaken: so doth the lion-will wish itself. Free from the happiness of slaves, redeemed from Deities and adorations, fearless and fear-inspiring, grand and lonesome: so is the will of the conscientious. 122 Wherever I found a living thing, there found I Will to Power; and even in the will of the servant found I the will to be master. That to the stronger the weaker shall serve--thereto persuadeth he his will who would be master over a still weaker one. That delight alone he is unwilling to forego. And as the lesser surrendereth himself to the greater that he may have delight and power over the least of all, so doth even the greatest surrender himself, and staketh--life, for the sake of power. It is the surrender of the greatest to run risk and danger, and play dice for death. 136 Good and evil which would be everlasting--it doth not exist! Of its own accord must it ever surpass itself anew. 137 He who hath to be a creator in good and evil--verily, he hath first to be a destroyer, and break values in pieces. 138