people will misunderstand and mistake us on that account: what does it matter! They will say: “Their ‘honesty’ — that is their devilry, and nothing else!” What does it matter! And even if they were right — have not all Gods hitherto been such sanctified, re-baptized devils? And after all, what do we know of ourselves? And what the spirit that leads us wants TO BE CALLED? (It is a question of names.) And how many spirits we harbour? Our honesty, we free spirits — let us be careful lest it become our vanity, our ornament and ostentation, our limitation, our stupidity! Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; “stupid to the point of sanctity,” they say in Russia, — let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!