Seht da den Menschen! Aus dem Franzoesischen: Ecce homo

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For is every influence Einfluß we spread around us anything other than cadaverous leichenhaft? And is there even one person on earth who does not bear one or more signs of this significant rejection Verwerfung?

O man! If you have not yet progressed far enough to be able to weep for your misery Elend, then at least do not deceive yourself so much as to take it for a happy and healthy condition. Do not let yourself be seduced by the enchantments Bezauberungen that beguile you. Do not be like the sick child who stops crying at the sound of a rattle swung before its eyes, and even puts on a smiling, calm expression, as if it no longer had to fear the gnawing pain, once the sight of that rattle has driven away its suffering for a time. Even if you fix your eye on those distracting delusions Täuschungen for only a moment, the pain will soon become felt by you. Terrified by the threatening danger, you will recognize for