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First Part · XIX. The Bite of the Adder

Beware of wronging the anchorite

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Finally, my brethren, guard against doing wrong to any anchorite. How could an anchorite forget! How could he requite!

Like a deep well is an anchorite. Easy is it to throw in a stone: if it should sink to the bottom, however, tell me, who will bring it out again?

Guard against injuring the anchorite! If ye have done so, however, well then, kill him also!—

Zarathustra warns his brethren not to wrong an anchorite, who cannot forget or requite. He compares him to a deep well into which a stone is easily thrown but cannot be retrieved, and says that if one has wronged him, one should kill him too.