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There is a passage in Zarathustra's Night-Song that hits differently depending on what you are.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Section XXII: "The Bestowing Virtue"

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Section XVII: "The Way of the Creating One"

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Section IV: "On the Despisers of the Body"

from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I

from the Enchiridion, Section XXXIII

from the Enchiridion, Section XXIX

from the Enchiridion, Section XVII

The Gods of Mars, chapter XXII

The Gods of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1913)

Marcus Aurelius records a Pythagorean practice (Book XII, section XXV):

Marcus Aurelius, Book XII, section XIII:

Empedocles, quoted by Marcus Aurelius in Book XI:

Marcus Aurelius, Book XI, section XIV:

Book X of the Meditations opens differently from the rest.

Book IX, section VII:

Book VIII of the Meditations contains this question:

Book VIII of the Meditations opens with Marcus Aurelius doing something unusual for an emperor: confessing failure.

Forster wrote "The Machine Stops" in 1909, and he got almost everything right. The underground cells, the blue plates transmitting faces, the lectures consumed without leaving the chair, the social network of thousands that meant nothing, the religious relationship to the device,…

In E. M. Forster's story, Harold rows against the tide until his heart breaks. His friend Micky watches from the stern, alternating between panic and delight, chanting "one, two" and quoting Tennyson. Harold rows harder. He makes himself "all will and muscle." He approaches "the …