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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient”

Friedrich Nietzsche (spoken by Zarathustra)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse XXII: The Bestowing Virtue, trans. Thomas Common (1892)

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In his farewell to the disciples Zarathustra adapts Luke 4:23 to his ethic of self-cultivation: the healer's own health is the first therapy.

Citation: "Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse XXII: The Bestowing Virtue, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q10)

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