Have you courage, O my brothers? Are you stout-hearted? Not courage before witnesses, but hermit- and eagle-courage, which no God even watches anymore. Cold souls, mules, the blind, the intoxicated I do not call stout-hearted. He has heart who knows fear but vanquishes fear; he who sees the abyss, but with pride. He who sees the abyss, but with eagles’ eyes, — he who seizes the abyss with eagles’ claws: he has courage.
