What is the greatest you could experience? It is the hour of the great despising. The hour in which even your happiness disgusts you and likewise your reason and your virtue. The hour when you say: “What good is my happiness! It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness should justify existence itself!” The hour when you say: “What good is my reason! Does it crave knowing as the lion craves its good? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.”

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "What is the greatest you could experience? It is the hour of the great despising. The hour in which even your happiness disgusts you and likewise your reason and your virtue. The hour when you say: “What good is my happiness! It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness should justify existence itself!” The hour when you say: “What good is my reason! Does it crave knowing as the lion craves its good? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.”" in the context of "Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, § 3, G. Parkes, trans. (Oxford: 2005), pp. 12-13" to mean that wisdom is timeless.