Courage slayeth also giddiness at abysses: and where doth man not stand at abysses! Is not seeing itself⁠—seeing abysses?

Courage is the best slayer: courage slayeth also fellow-suffering. Fellow-suffering, however, is the deepest abyss: as deeply as man looketh into life, so deeply also doth he look into suffering.

Courage, however, is the best slayer, courage which attacketh: it slayeth even death itself; for it saith: “ Was that life? Well! Once more!”

In such speech, however, there is much sound of triumph. He who hath ears to hear, let him hear.⁠—

“Halt, dwarf!” said I. “Either I⁠—or thou! I, however, am the stronger of the two:⁠—thou knowest not mine abysmal thought! It ⁠—couldst thou not endure!”