The sick and perishing--it was they who despised the body and the earth, and invented the heavenly world, and the redeeming blood-drops; but even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth! 33-34 The awakened one, the knowing one, saith: "Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body." 35 The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. An instrument of thy body is also thy little sagacity, my brother, which thou callest "spirit"--a little instrument and plaything of thy big sagacity. Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit. 36 Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage--it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body. 36 When thou hast a virtue, and it is thine own virtue, thou hast it in common with no one. 38 If thou be fortunate, then wilt thou have one virtue and no more: thus goest thou easier over the bridge. 39 "Enemy" shall ye say but not "villain," "invalid" shall ye say but not "wretch," "fool" shall ye say but not "sinner." 41 Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. 43 Ye look aloft when ye long for exaltation; and I look downward because I am exalted. Who among you can at the same time laugh and be exalted? He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive--so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth a warrior. 44 It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. 44 I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. 45 Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity! 45 Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"! 49 Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them! 51 Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars--and the short peace more than the long. You I advise not to work, but to fight. You, I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory! 52 Ye say it is the good cause which halloweth even war? I say unto you: it is the good war which halloweth every cause. 52 "What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. 52 Ye shall only have enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised. Ye must be proud of your enemies; then, the successes of your enemies are also your successes. 53 A state is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people." 54