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When I came unto men for the first time, then did I commit the anchorite folly, the great folly: I appeared on the marketplace. + 

And when I spake unto all, I spake unto none. In the evening, however, ropedancers were my companions, and corpses; and I myself almost a corpse. + 

With the new morning, however, there came unto me a new truth: then did I learn to say: “Of what account to me are marketplace and populace and populace-noise and long populace-ears!” + 

Ye higher men, learn this from me: On the marketplace no one believeth in higher men. But if ye will speak there, very well! The populace, however, blinketh: “We are all equal.” + 

“Ye higher men,”⁠—so blinketh the populace⁠—“there are no higher men, we are all equal; man is man, before God⁠—we are all equal!” + 

Before God!⁠—Now, however, this God hath died. Before the populace, however, we will not be equal. Ye higher men, away from the marketplace! + 