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editions of the clas-
sics were made for the use of the French
royal princes.
sics were made for the use of the French
royal princes.
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nihil humani, etc.
: I consider nothing human
strange to me. From Terence.
p. 59. spernere se sperni; see on VI. , p. 140.
spernere se ipsum: to despise one's self.
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p. 61. arriere-penstes; see on VII. , p. 270.
p. 65. odium generis humani: hatred of the human
race. From Tacitus's famous account of
the alleged implication of the Christians
in the great fire of Rome under Nero.
Nietzsche takes the genitive generis
humani as objective: it may also be
subjective—"hatred felt for them by
the human race. "
p. 72. cere perennius; see on VI. , p. 36.
p. 92. deus absconditus: hidden god.
p. 93. in effigie: in effigy.
p. 99. O pudenda origo; see above, on p. 49.
p. 136. Moira; see on VII. , p. 229.
p. 137. vivre pour autrui: to live for others.
p. 138. On n'est, etc. : We are good only by virtue
of pity: therefore there must needs be
some element of pity in all our feelings.
p. 154. qualitas occulta: hidden quality.
p. 164. refugium: refuge.
p. 173. error veritate simplicior: error more straight-
forward than truth.
p. 175. Jwmo pamphagus: omnivorous man.
p. 179. credat Judceus Apella: let the Jew Apella
believe it. By this phrase in his Satires
Horace means "let a credulous person
believe this: I don't. " It seems strange,
perhaps, that the Jew should ever have
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been taken as a type of credulity: but
this was probably due to his being
credited by the Romans with numerous
inexplicable superstitions.
p. 193. esprit: wit.
p. 211. spernere se sperni; see on VI. , p. 140.
p. 215. bestia triumphans: triumphant beast. Per-
haps an allusion to Giordano Bruno's
book Spaccio della bestia trionfante.
p. 220. nil admirari; see on II. , p. 67.
p. 221. admirari estphilosophari: to wonder (or ad-
mire) is to be a philosopher.
p. 223. in summa: in sum.
p. 258. chi non ha non e: he who has not is not.
p. 263. profanum vulgus; see on II. , p. 156.
in maiorem deigloriam: to the greater glory
of God.
p. 267. facta: facts.
ficta: invented.
p. 303. remediunt amoris: remedy for love. "Re-
media Amoris" is the title of a well-
known poem of Ovid.
p. 304. credo quia absurdum est: I believe it because
it is absurd.
credo quia absurdus sum: I believe it because
I am absurd.
p. 311. embellir la nature: to improve upon nature,
p. 318. vita practica: practical life.
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p. 328. hic Rhodus hic salta: here is Rhodes, here
leap.
p. 335. ubi pater sum, ibi patria: where I am a
father (to an idea), there is my father-
land. The Latin proverb quoted in the
note means "where I am happy, there
is my fatherland. "
p. 353. bon ton: good form.
p. 357. gloria mundi: glory of the world.
X. The Joyful Wisdom
p. 3. incipit tragoedia: here begins the tragedy.
incipit parcedia: here begins the parody.
p. 21. et hoc genus omne: and all that breed.
primum scribere, deinde philosophari: first to
write, then to philosophise.
p. 46. andante: slow (musical term).
p. 49. raison d'etre: reason for existing.
p. 61. I'ordre du jour pour le roi: the order of the
day for the king.
p. 73. historia abscondita: hidden history.
p. 75. plaudite, etc. : applaud, my friends, the com-
edy is over.
qualis artifex pereo: what an artist is being
lost to the world in me!
qualis spectator pereo: what a spectator is be-
ing lost to the world in me!
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p. 77. hoc est ridiculum, hoc est absurdum: this is
ridiculous, this is absurd.
physis: nature, constitution.
p. 101. pudendum; see on VI. , p. 70.
p. 104. in eroticis: in matters of love.
p. 115. esprit: wit.
est magna res tacere: it is an important matter
to hold one's tongue.
p. 116. imperium Romanum: Roman Empire.
p. 118. ferocia animi: ferocity (or boldness) of soul.
melos: melody, song, lyric poem.
p. 125. Vita nuova: The New Life. Dante's auto-
biography.
p. 128. regime: rule, system.
p. 129. Ah! mon ami, etc. : Ah! my friend, I am
leaving this world, where the heart must
either break or steel itself.
p. 134. principium individuationis; see on I. , p. 25.
p. 139. in usumDelphinorum: for the use of the Dau-
phins.
Expurgated editions of the clas-
sics were made for the use of the French
royal princes.
p. 140. bourgeois: middle-class.
noblesse: nobility.
esprit; see above, on p. 115.
tUgance: elegance.
p. 165. amour-plaisir: love based on pleasure.
amour-vanite: love based on vanity.
p. 169. requiemeternamDeo: eternal rest in theLord.
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p. 174. crimen /cesce majestatis divina: crime of out-
raging the Divine majesty.
p. 185. homopozta: man as poet.
p. 186. denouement: unravelling of the plot.
mentiri: to lie.
p. 191. les souverains rangent auxparvenus: mon-
archs rank with parvenus.
p. 196. hie niger est: this man is black.
p. 207. sit venia verbo; see on VIII. , p. 18.
p. 213. sum, etc. : I am, therefore I reflect: I reflect,
therefore I am.
amor fati: love of (one's) destiny.
p. 217. vita contemplativa; see on IX. , p. 48.
vita religiosa: religious life.
p. 235. vis contemplativa: contemplative power.
vis creativa: creative power.
p. 238. placitum: thing determined.
p. 250. in media vita: in the midst of life
p. 254. esprit; see above on p. 115.
otium: leisure.
p. 255. helium; see on II. , p. 12.
p. 256. quando, etc. : since even in the case of the wise,
the desire for glory is the last thing where-
of they divest themselves.
p. 257. non ridere, etc. : not to laugh, not to mourn,
nor to hate, but to understand.
intelligere: to understand.
p. 271. incipit tragcedia; see on p. 3.
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p. 273. carcasse, etc. : You tremble, my carcase? you
would tremble far more if you knew
whither I am taking you.
p. 281. consensus; agreement.
P. 286. naturalisme: naturalism.
la vérite vraie: true truth.
p. 289. déraisonnable: addle-pated.
p. 290. homines religiosi: religious men.
p. 294. disciplina voluntatis : disciplining of the will.
p. 295. vis inertiæ: deadweight.
p. 303. Græculus histrio: paltry Greek actor.
p. 306. causaliter: causally.
p. 310. elegantia psychologica: psychological ele-
gance.
sub specie speciei: under the form of a form.
p. 327. in litteris et artibus : in literature and art.
p. 334. terminus: term.
p. 335. proprium: peculiar property.
ipsissimum: very own (lit. selfest).
p. 336. praxis: practice.
amor intellectualis dei: intellectual love of
God.
deus: god.
in summa: in sum.
p. 349. diu noctuque incubando: by brooding night
and day over it.
p. 365. rimus remedium: rhyme as a remedy.
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XII. Beyond Good and Evil.
p. 7. deomnibus dubitandum: everything must be
doubted.
p. 8. niaiserie: stupidity.
p. 9. a priori; see on I. , p. 123.
p. 10. Tartuffery: hypocrisy. From Tartuffe, the
hypocritical hero of Moliere's celebrated
comedy.
p. 12. mise en scene: stage setting.
p. 13. adventavit, etc. : the ass, beautiful and most
strong, has come.
Stoa: the Porch. A collective term for the
Stoic school of philosophers.
p. 14. causa prima: first cause.
p. 16. a priori; see on I. , p. 123.
p. 17. niaiserie allemande: German stupidity.
p. 18. quia, etc. : because there is in it a soporific
virtue {virtus dormitivd), the property
of which is to numb the senses (sensus
assoupire). Assoupire is a comically
Latinised French word, invented by
the sham doctor in Moliere's Midecin
malgre" lui.
p. 19. atomon: atom, indivisible thing.
p. 22. reductio ad absurdum: reduction to absurd-
ity. Appliedto Euclid's method of prov-
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ingaproposition by showing the absurd-
ity of all assumptions but the true one.
causa sui: uncaused cause.
p. 23. contradictioinadjecto: contradiction interms.
p. 28. F effete est moi: the effect is myself.
p. 31. la religion de la souffrance humaine: the re-
ligion of human suffering.
p.
strange to me. From Terence.
p. 59. spernere se sperni; see on VI. , p. 140.
spernere se ipsum: to despise one's self.
nan
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p. 61. arriere-penstes; see on VII. , p. 270.
p. 65. odium generis humani: hatred of the human
race. From Tacitus's famous account of
the alleged implication of the Christians
in the great fire of Rome under Nero.
Nietzsche takes the genitive generis
humani as objective: it may also be
subjective—"hatred felt for them by
the human race. "
p. 72. cere perennius; see on VI. , p. 36.
p. 92. deus absconditus: hidden god.
p. 93. in effigie: in effigy.
p. 99. O pudenda origo; see above, on p. 49.
p. 136. Moira; see on VII. , p. 229.
p. 137. vivre pour autrui: to live for others.
p. 138. On n'est, etc. : We are good only by virtue
of pity: therefore there must needs be
some element of pity in all our feelings.
p. 154. qualitas occulta: hidden quality.
p. 164. refugium: refuge.
p. 173. error veritate simplicior: error more straight-
forward than truth.
p. 175. Jwmo pamphagus: omnivorous man.
p. 179. credat Judceus Apella: let the Jew Apella
believe it. By this phrase in his Satires
Horace means "let a credulous person
believe this: I don't. " It seems strange,
perhaps, that the Jew should ever have
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THE DAWN OF DAY
been taken as a type of credulity: but
this was probably due to his being
credited by the Romans with numerous
inexplicable superstitions.
p. 193. esprit: wit.
p. 211. spernere se sperni; see on VI. , p. 140.
p. 215. bestia triumphans: triumphant beast. Per-
haps an allusion to Giordano Bruno's
book Spaccio della bestia trionfante.
p. 220. nil admirari; see on II. , p. 67.
p. 221. admirari estphilosophari: to wonder (or ad-
mire) is to be a philosopher.
p. 223. in summa: in sum.
p. 258. chi non ha non e: he who has not is not.
p. 263. profanum vulgus; see on II. , p. 156.
in maiorem deigloriam: to the greater glory
of God.
p. 267. facta: facts.
ficta: invented.
p. 303. remediunt amoris: remedy for love. "Re-
media Amoris" is the title of a well-
known poem of Ovid.
p. 304. credo quia absurdum est: I believe it because
it is absurd.
credo quia absurdus sum: I believe it because
I am absurd.
p. 311. embellir la nature: to improve upon nature,
p. 318. vita practica: practical life.
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VOCABULARY OF FOREIGN PHRASES
p. 328. hic Rhodus hic salta: here is Rhodes, here
leap.
p. 335. ubi pater sum, ibi patria: where I am a
father (to an idea), there is my father-
land. The Latin proverb quoted in the
note means "where I am happy, there
is my fatherland. "
p. 353. bon ton: good form.
p. 357. gloria mundi: glory of the world.
X. The Joyful Wisdom
p. 3. incipit tragoedia: here begins the tragedy.
incipit parcedia: here begins the parody.
p. 21. et hoc genus omne: and all that breed.
primum scribere, deinde philosophari: first to
write, then to philosophise.
p. 46. andante: slow (musical term).
p. 49. raison d'etre: reason for existing.
p. 61. I'ordre du jour pour le roi: the order of the
day for the king.
p. 73. historia abscondita: hidden history.
p. 75. plaudite, etc. : applaud, my friends, the com-
edy is over.
qualis artifex pereo: what an artist is being
lost to the world in me!
qualis spectator pereo: what a spectator is be-
ing lost to the world in me!
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p. 77. hoc est ridiculum, hoc est absurdum: this is
ridiculous, this is absurd.
physis: nature, constitution.
p. 101. pudendum; see on VI. , p. 70.
p. 104. in eroticis: in matters of love.
p. 115. esprit: wit.
est magna res tacere: it is an important matter
to hold one's tongue.
p. 116. imperium Romanum: Roman Empire.
p. 118. ferocia animi: ferocity (or boldness) of soul.
melos: melody, song, lyric poem.
p. 125. Vita nuova: The New Life. Dante's auto-
biography.
p. 128. regime: rule, system.
p. 129. Ah! mon ami, etc. : Ah! my friend, I am
leaving this world, where the heart must
either break or steel itself.
p. 134. principium individuationis; see on I. , p. 25.
p. 139. in usumDelphinorum: for the use of the Dau-
phins.
Expurgated editions of the clas-
sics were made for the use of the French
royal princes.
p. 140. bourgeois: middle-class.
noblesse: nobility.
esprit; see above, on p. 115.
tUgance: elegance.
p. 165. amour-plaisir: love based on pleasure.
amour-vanite: love based on vanity.
p. 169. requiemeternamDeo: eternal rest in theLord.
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p. 174. crimen /cesce majestatis divina: crime of out-
raging the Divine majesty.
p. 185. homopozta: man as poet.
p. 186. denouement: unravelling of the plot.
mentiri: to lie.
p. 191. les souverains rangent auxparvenus: mon-
archs rank with parvenus.
p. 196. hie niger est: this man is black.
p. 207. sit venia verbo; see on VIII. , p. 18.
p. 213. sum, etc. : I am, therefore I reflect: I reflect,
therefore I am.
amor fati: love of (one's) destiny.
p. 217. vita contemplativa; see on IX. , p. 48.
vita religiosa: religious life.
p. 235. vis contemplativa: contemplative power.
vis creativa: creative power.
p. 238. placitum: thing determined.
p. 250. in media vita: in the midst of life
p. 254. esprit; see above on p. 115.
otium: leisure.
p. 255. helium; see on II. , p. 12.
p. 256. quando, etc. : since even in the case of the wise,
the desire for glory is the last thing where-
of they divest themselves.
p. 257. non ridere, etc. : not to laugh, not to mourn,
nor to hate, but to understand.
intelligere: to understand.
p. 271. incipit tragcedia; see on p. 3.
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p. 273. carcasse, etc. : You tremble, my carcase? you
would tremble far more if you knew
whither I am taking you.
p. 281. consensus; agreement.
P. 286. naturalisme: naturalism.
la vérite vraie: true truth.
p. 289. déraisonnable: addle-pated.
p. 290. homines religiosi: religious men.
p. 294. disciplina voluntatis : disciplining of the will.
p. 295. vis inertiæ: deadweight.
p. 303. Græculus histrio: paltry Greek actor.
p. 306. causaliter: causally.
p. 310. elegantia psychologica: psychological ele-
gance.
sub specie speciei: under the form of a form.
p. 327. in litteris et artibus : in literature and art.
p. 334. terminus: term.
p. 335. proprium: peculiar property.
ipsissimum: very own (lit. selfest).
p. 336. praxis: practice.
amor intellectualis dei: intellectual love of
God.
deus: god.
in summa: in sum.
p. 349. diu noctuque incubando: by brooding night
and day over it.
p. 365. rimus remedium: rhyme as a remedy.
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XII. Beyond Good and Evil.
p. 7. deomnibus dubitandum: everything must be
doubted.
p. 8. niaiserie: stupidity.
p. 9. a priori; see on I. , p. 123.
p. 10. Tartuffery: hypocrisy. From Tartuffe, the
hypocritical hero of Moliere's celebrated
comedy.
p. 12. mise en scene: stage setting.
p. 13. adventavit, etc. : the ass, beautiful and most
strong, has come.
Stoa: the Porch. A collective term for the
Stoic school of philosophers.
p. 14. causa prima: first cause.
p. 16. a priori; see on I. , p. 123.
p. 17. niaiserie allemande: German stupidity.
p. 18. quia, etc. : because there is in it a soporific
virtue {virtus dormitivd), the property
of which is to numb the senses (sensus
assoupire). Assoupire is a comically
Latinised French word, invented by
the sham doctor in Moliere's Midecin
malgre" lui.
p. 19. atomon: atom, indivisible thing.
p. 22. reductio ad absurdum: reduction to absurd-
ity. Appliedto Euclid's method of prov-
1
388
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".
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
ingaproposition by showing the absurd-
ity of all assumptions but the true one.
causa sui: uncaused cause.
p. 23. contradictioinadjecto: contradiction interms.
p. 28. F effete est moi: the effect is myself.
p. 31. la religion de la souffrance humaine: the re-
ligion of human suffering.
p.
