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Often appears with: virtue conflict · self-overcoming · madness before the deed · justice as a virtue · judges and legal authority · jealousy · human improvement · harm from internal contradiction · ethics of punishment · criminal responsibility and intent · crime and punishment · courts, trials, and pleading
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
Zarathustra instructs judges and sacrificers to treat the pale criminal’s slaying as pity, separating thought, deed, and idea, and interpreting madness as preceding murderous desire rather than mere revenge.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself. Ah! my brother, hast thou never seen a virtue backbite and stab itself? Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues,—for thou wilt succumb by them.—…