progressus
in simile: progress towards the
similar.
similar.
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p. 176. sans genie et sans esprit: without genius and
without wit.
p. 202. noli me tangere: don't touch me.
p. 203. rubate: robbed.
p. 208. res facta: thing made.
res nata: thing born.
p. 209. resficta etpicta: thing feigned and painted.
aereperennius: enduring; see on VI. , p. 36.
p. 210. je me'prise: I despise.
p. 213. Ame francaise: French soul.
noblesse: nobility.
p. 214. bourgeois: middle-class person.
Ame moderne: modern soul.
I'artpour Fart; see above, on p. 145.
p. 215. romanciers: novelists.
boulevardiers de Paris: Parisian men about
town.
in voluptate psychologica: in psychological
pleasure.
p. 219. lento: slow (musical term).
p. 229. de'sinte'ressement: disinterestedness.
p. 230. raffinement: refinement.
p. 231. un bonhomme; see above, on p. 165. The
sense as usual is contemptuous.
p. 232. gai saber: joyful wisdom. Nietzsche Ger-
manised this Provencal phrase as the
title of one of his books.
p. 234. polls: city (especially as "city-state ").
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VOCABULARY OF FOREIGN PHRASES
p. 139. ipsissimosity: abstract formed from the super-
lative of the Latin ipse, "self. "
p. 141. caputmortuum: lit. "deadhead. " Achemical
term, used by Nietszche in its older sense,
i. e. the dry residue left over after the dis-
tillation of mineral products.
tour de force: feat of skill.
je ne mfyrisepresque rien: I despise scarcely
anything.
p. 142. presque: almost.
rien: nothing.
p. 143. bona voluntatis: of good will.
p. 145. F art pour I'art: art for art's sake.
p. 148. cet, etc. : that fatalistic, ironic, mephisto-
phelian spirit.
p. 149. Voila un homme: there is a man.
p. 155. presto; see above, on p. 41.
p. 161. betise bourgeoise: middle-class stupidity.
p. 162. homo bona voluntatis: man of good will.
p. 163. d/sinte'ress/: disinterested.
p. 165. bonhomme: worthy fellow.
p. 166. barocco: baroque.
in moribus et artibus: morals and art.
inpuncto: in detail.
p. 168. esprit vaste: wasteful mind.
p. 174. ce s/nateur Pococurante: that easy-going
Parliamentarian. Pococurante, lit
"care-little. "
Tartuffism; see above, on p. 10.
r
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p. 176. sans genie et sans esprit: without genius and
without wit.
p. 202. noli me tangere: don't touch me.
p. 203. rubate: robbed.
p. 208. res facta: thing made.
res nata: thing born.
p. 209. res ficta et picta: thing feigned and painted.
aereperennius: enduring; see on VI. , p. 36.
p. 210. je mtprise: I despise.
p. 213. dme francaise: French soul.
noblesse: nobility.
p. 214. bourgeois: middle-class person.
dme moderne: modern soul.
Fart pour Fart; see above, on p. 145.
p. 215. romanciers: novelists.
boulevardiers de Paris: Parisian men about
town.
in voluptate psychologica: in psychological
pleasure.
p. 219. lento: slow (musical term).
p. 229. d/sint/ressement: disinterestedness.
p. 230. raffinement: refinement.
p. 231. un bonhomme; see above, on p. 165. The
sense as usual is contemptuous.
p. 232. gai saber: joyful wisdom. Nietzsche Ger-
manised this Provencal phrase as the
title of one of his books.
p. 234. polls: city (especially as "city-state ").
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p. 235. nuances; see above, on p. 41.
p. 236. cornucopias: horns of plenty.
p. 238. difference engendre haine: difference begets
hatred.
p. 239. demi-monde: half-world.
p. 240. furca: pitchfork.
naturam expellere: to drive out nature.
usque recurret: will always run back.
The whole refers to a line of Horace:
"naturam expellas furca, tamen usque
recurret": drive out Nature with a
pitchfork, nevertheless she will always
return.
p. 244.
progressus in simile: progress towards the
similar.
p. 252. contradictio in adjecto; see above, on p. 23.
p. 256. vertu est enthousiasme: virtue is enthusiasm.
XIII. The Genealogy of Morals.
p. 4. a priori; see on I. , p. 123.
par excellence: above all.
p. 9. Tartuffism; see on XII. , p. 10.
p. 17. partie honteuse: privy part.
vis inertice; see on XI. , p. 295.
p. 20. esprit de corps: corporate spirit.
p. 21. d/sinteress/: disinterested.
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p. 23. Schlecht: bad.
schlicht: simple. The two following words
both mean “simply. ”
p. 24. é o Orós (esthlos): good.
25. ñ ar ós (kakos): bad.
derrós (deilos): cowardly.
ayudós (agathos): good, courageous.
Mié as (melas): black.
malus: bad.
Hic niger est: this man is black.
p. 26. bonus: good.
bellum: war.
Entzweiung: division into two.
duo: two.
gut: good.
p. 28. unio mystica: mystic union.
p. 32, sub hoc signo: under this flag.
p. 33. quaeritur: it is doubtful.
36. dechós (deilos): see above, on p. 25.
δειλαιός (deilaios)
These words all
Tovmpós (ponēros)
mean "wretched. ”
Moxonpós (mochthēros) J.
oilupós (oizuros): woeful.
čvonßos (anolbos) {
} unhappy.
Thámar (tlēmón) un
Quotuyev (dustuchein): to be unfortunate.
ule popá (xumphora): accident, misfor-
tune.
EU TPÁTTEI (eu prattein): to fare well.
gevvaños (gennaios): noble.
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p. 39. inter pares: among equals.
p. 41. podopía (rhathumia): nonchalance.
p. 48. chef d'auvre: masterpiece.
p. 51. beati, etc. : happy in the heavenly kingdom,
they shall behold the tortures of the
damned, in order that their own happi-
ness may be more delightful to them.
p. 52. atenim,etc. :Yet there remain other spectacles,
that final and eternal day of judgment,
that day unlooked for by the nations,
that day scoffed at of men, when so great
a legacy of antiquity,and so many births,
shall be swallowed up in one fire. How
vast will be the spectacle on that day!
How I shall admire, how I shall laugh,
how I shall rejoice, how I shall exult,
when I behold so many kings and so
mighty groaning with Jove himself and
their own witnesses in nethermost dark-
ness! Ay, and the magistrates, the per-
secutors of the name of the Lord, often
in flames more fierce than the leaping
flames which their wrath kindled against
the Christians !
Moreover, what wise and famous philoso-
phers shall I see, glowing in the same
conflagration as their disciples, whom
they persuaded that God cared for
naught on earth, whom they taught that
souls either existed not or would not
return to their former bodies! And
poets, too, quaking before the judgment-
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seat, not of Rhadamanthus or of Minos,
but of an unexpected Christ! Then must
we hear the tragedians speak more loud-
ly, cry more piercingly, when the tragedy
is their own: then must we recognise the
comic actors, looser than ever when
loosened by fire: then must we behold
the charioteer all glowing in his chariot
of fire, then must we contemplate the
athletes displaying themselves not in the
gymnasium but in the flames, unlesseven
then I should rather not look at them, but
feast my insatiable eyes upon those that
have raged against the Lord.
"This," I should say to them "is your car-
penter's son, your harlot's son, your
Sabbath-breaker, your Samaritan, who
was possessed of demons. This is the
man whom you bought from Judas; this
is He whom you struck with reed and fist,
whom you contemptuously spat upon,
whom you made to drink gall and vine-
gar. This isHe whom his disciples secret-
ly stole, that He might be said to have
risen again; or whom—in your other
version—the gardener took away, lest
his own lettuces should be damaged by
the crowd of visitors. "
What praetor or consul or pagan priest in his
munificence will give thee the chance of
gazingonsuchasight. ofexultinginsuch
j oys? And yet even now (at the present
hour)we in ameasure have them byfaith
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in the picturing of our imagination. But
what are thethings that eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard and which havenot so much
as dimly dawned upon the human heart?
Whatever they are, they are more delightful,
I think, than circus and both theatres and
every race course.
[For an interesting if unsympathetic criticism
of this passage—the superb cadence of
which is impossible to render in English
—seeGibborisDeclineandFall,chap. xv. ~\
p. 61. tabula rasa: a clean slate.
p. 62. vis inertia; deadweight.
p. 71. si plus: if they have cut more or less, let it
cause no prejudice.
p. 72. defaire, etc. : in doing harm for the pleasure
of doing it.
P- 73- sympathiamalevolens: malevolent sympathy.
p. 74. les nostalgies de la croix: home-sickness for
the Cross.
tour deforce; see on XII. , p. 141.
p. 81. Elend: misery (originally " exile").
p. 82. va victis: woe to the vanquished!
p. 83. compositio: compounding (for crimes).
p. 84. causa fiendi: immediate cause (lit. cause of
happening).
p. 89. toto calo: altogether.
p. 90. progressus: progress.
p. 91. misarchism: hatred of ruling.
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p. 93. per analogiam: by analogy.
p. 95. instrumentum: instrument.
morsus conscientice: sting of conscience.
gaudium: joy.
p. 109. causa prima: primary cause.
p. 121. morbidezza; morbidity.
novissima glories cupido: latest desire for
glory.
p. 129. in majorem musicce gloriam: to the greater
glory of music.
p. 131. une promesse de bonheur: a promise of hap-
piness.
le dhinteressement: disinterestedness.
p. 134. instrumentum diaboli: devil's instrument.
remedium: remedy.
p. 135. la betephilosophe: the philosophic beast.
optimum: best.
p. 136. pereat mundus, etc. : let the world perish, but
philosophy be made, let the philosopher
be made, let me be made!
p. 143. nitimur in vetitum: weBtrive towards the for-
bidden.
p. 144. je combats, etc. : I fight against a universal
spider's web.
p. 145. jus primes noctis: right of the first night. In
some cases (especially in France) the
feudal lord is said to have had a claim
upon his vassal's bride on the first
night of the latter's marriage. This
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right is, however, probably legendary,
or at any rate it was never exercised.
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
p. 176. sans genie et sans esprit: without genius and
without wit.
p. 202. noli me tangere: don't touch me.
p. 203. rubate: robbed.
p. 208. res facta: thing made.
res nata: thing born.
p. 209. resficta etpicta: thing feigned and painted.
aereperennius: enduring; see on VI. , p. 36.
p. 210. je me'prise: I despise.
p. 213. Ame francaise: French soul.
noblesse: nobility.
p. 214. bourgeois: middle-class person.
Ame moderne: modern soul.
I'artpour Fart; see above, on p. 145.
p. 215. romanciers: novelists.
boulevardiers de Paris: Parisian men about
town.
in voluptate psychologica: in psychological
pleasure.
p. 219. lento: slow (musical term).
p. 229. de'sinte'ressement: disinterestedness.
p. 230. raffinement: refinement.
p. 231. un bonhomme; see above, on p. 165. The
sense as usual is contemptuous.
p. 232. gai saber: joyful wisdom. Nietzsche Ger-
manised this Provencal phrase as the
title of one of his books.
p. 234. polls: city (especially as "city-state ").
393
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VOCABULARY OF FOREIGN PHRASES
p. 139. ipsissimosity: abstract formed from the super-
lative of the Latin ipse, "self. "
p. 141. caputmortuum: lit. "deadhead. " Achemical
term, used by Nietszche in its older sense,
i. e. the dry residue left over after the dis-
tillation of mineral products.
tour de force: feat of skill.
je ne mfyrisepresque rien: I despise scarcely
anything.
p. 142. presque: almost.
rien: nothing.
p. 143. bona voluntatis: of good will.
p. 145. F art pour I'art: art for art's sake.
p. 148. cet, etc. : that fatalistic, ironic, mephisto-
phelian spirit.
p. 149. Voila un homme: there is a man.
p. 155. presto; see above, on p. 41.
p. 161. betise bourgeoise: middle-class stupidity.
p. 162. homo bona voluntatis: man of good will.
p. 163. d/sinte'ress/: disinterested.
p. 165. bonhomme: worthy fellow.
p. 166. barocco: baroque.
in moribus et artibus: morals and art.
inpuncto: in detail.
p. 168. esprit vaste: wasteful mind.
p. 174. ce s/nateur Pococurante: that easy-going
Parliamentarian. Pococurante, lit
"care-little. "
Tartuffism; see above, on p. 10.
r
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BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
p. 176. sans genie et sans esprit: without genius and
without wit.
p. 202. noli me tangere: don't touch me.
p. 203. rubate: robbed.
p. 208. res facta: thing made.
res nata: thing born.
p. 209. res ficta et picta: thing feigned and painted.
aereperennius: enduring; see on VI. , p. 36.
p. 210. je mtprise: I despise.
p. 213. dme francaise: French soul.
noblesse: nobility.
p. 214. bourgeois: middle-class person.
dme moderne: modern soul.
Fart pour Fart; see above, on p. 145.
p. 215. romanciers: novelists.
boulevardiers de Paris: Parisian men about
town.
in voluptate psychologica: in psychological
pleasure.
p. 219. lento: slow (musical term).
p. 229. d/sint/ressement: disinterestedness.
p. 230. raffinement: refinement.
p. 231. un bonhomme; see above, on p. 165. The
sense as usual is contemptuous.
p. 232. gai saber: joyful wisdom. Nietzsche Ger-
manised this Provencal phrase as the
title of one of his books.
p. 234. polls: city (especially as "city-state ").
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p. 235. nuances; see above, on p. 41.
p. 236. cornucopias: horns of plenty.
p. 238. difference engendre haine: difference begets
hatred.
p. 239. demi-monde: half-world.
p. 240. furca: pitchfork.
naturam expellere: to drive out nature.
usque recurret: will always run back.
The whole refers to a line of Horace:
"naturam expellas furca, tamen usque
recurret": drive out Nature with a
pitchfork, nevertheless she will always
return.
p. 244.
progressus in simile: progress towards the
similar.
p. 252. contradictio in adjecto; see above, on p. 23.
p. 256. vertu est enthousiasme: virtue is enthusiasm.
XIII. The Genealogy of Morals.
p. 4. a priori; see on I. , p. 123.
par excellence: above all.
p. 9. Tartuffism; see on XII. , p. 10.
p. 17. partie honteuse: privy part.
vis inertice; see on XI. , p. 295.
p. 20. esprit de corps: corporate spirit.
p. 21. d/sinteress/: disinterested.
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p. 23. Schlecht: bad.
schlicht: simple. The two following words
both mean “simply. ”
p. 24. é o Orós (esthlos): good.
25. ñ ar ós (kakos): bad.
derrós (deilos): cowardly.
ayudós (agathos): good, courageous.
Mié as (melas): black.
malus: bad.
Hic niger est: this man is black.
p. 26. bonus: good.
bellum: war.
Entzweiung: division into two.
duo: two.
gut: good.
p. 28. unio mystica: mystic union.
p. 32, sub hoc signo: under this flag.
p. 33. quaeritur: it is doubtful.
36. dechós (deilos): see above, on p. 25.
δειλαιός (deilaios)
These words all
Tovmpós (ponēros)
mean "wretched. ”
Moxonpós (mochthēros) J.
oilupós (oizuros): woeful.
čvonßos (anolbos) {
} unhappy.
Thámar (tlēmón) un
Quotuyev (dustuchein): to be unfortunate.
ule popá (xumphora): accident, misfor-
tune.
EU TPÁTTEI (eu prattein): to fare well.
gevvaños (gennaios): noble.
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p. 39. inter pares: among equals.
p. 41. podopía (rhathumia): nonchalance.
p. 48. chef d'auvre: masterpiece.
p. 51. beati, etc. : happy in the heavenly kingdom,
they shall behold the tortures of the
damned, in order that their own happi-
ness may be more delightful to them.
p. 52. atenim,etc. :Yet there remain other spectacles,
that final and eternal day of judgment,
that day unlooked for by the nations,
that day scoffed at of men, when so great
a legacy of antiquity,and so many births,
shall be swallowed up in one fire. How
vast will be the spectacle on that day!
How I shall admire, how I shall laugh,
how I shall rejoice, how I shall exult,
when I behold so many kings and so
mighty groaning with Jove himself and
their own witnesses in nethermost dark-
ness! Ay, and the magistrates, the per-
secutors of the name of the Lord, often
in flames more fierce than the leaping
flames which their wrath kindled against
the Christians !
Moreover, what wise and famous philoso-
phers shall I see, glowing in the same
conflagration as their disciples, whom
they persuaded that God cared for
naught on earth, whom they taught that
souls either existed not or would not
return to their former bodies! And
poets, too, quaking before the judgment-
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seat, not of Rhadamanthus or of Minos,
but of an unexpected Christ! Then must
we hear the tragedians speak more loud-
ly, cry more piercingly, when the tragedy
is their own: then must we recognise the
comic actors, looser than ever when
loosened by fire: then must we behold
the charioteer all glowing in his chariot
of fire, then must we contemplate the
athletes displaying themselves not in the
gymnasium but in the flames, unlesseven
then I should rather not look at them, but
feast my insatiable eyes upon those that
have raged against the Lord.
"This," I should say to them "is your car-
penter's son, your harlot's son, your
Sabbath-breaker, your Samaritan, who
was possessed of demons. This is the
man whom you bought from Judas; this
is He whom you struck with reed and fist,
whom you contemptuously spat upon,
whom you made to drink gall and vine-
gar. This isHe whom his disciples secret-
ly stole, that He might be said to have
risen again; or whom—in your other
version—the gardener took away, lest
his own lettuces should be damaged by
the crowd of visitors. "
What praetor or consul or pagan priest in his
munificence will give thee the chance of
gazingonsuchasight. ofexultinginsuch
j oys? And yet even now (at the present
hour)we in ameasure have them byfaith
397
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in the picturing of our imagination. But
what are thethings that eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard and which havenot so much
as dimly dawned upon the human heart?
Whatever they are, they are more delightful,
I think, than circus and both theatres and
every race course.
[For an interesting if unsympathetic criticism
of this passage—the superb cadence of
which is impossible to render in English
—seeGibborisDeclineandFall,chap. xv. ~\
p. 61. tabula rasa: a clean slate.
p. 62. vis inertia; deadweight.
p. 71. si plus: if they have cut more or less, let it
cause no prejudice.
p. 72. defaire, etc. : in doing harm for the pleasure
of doing it.
P- 73- sympathiamalevolens: malevolent sympathy.
p. 74. les nostalgies de la croix: home-sickness for
the Cross.
tour deforce; see on XII. , p. 141.
p. 81. Elend: misery (originally " exile").
p. 82. va victis: woe to the vanquished!
p. 83. compositio: compounding (for crimes).
p. 84. causa fiendi: immediate cause (lit. cause of
happening).
p. 89. toto calo: altogether.
p. 90. progressus: progress.
p. 91. misarchism: hatred of ruling.
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p. 93. per analogiam: by analogy.
p. 95. instrumentum: instrument.
morsus conscientice: sting of conscience.
gaudium: joy.
p. 109. causa prima: primary cause.
p. 121. morbidezza; morbidity.
novissima glories cupido: latest desire for
glory.
p. 129. in majorem musicce gloriam: to the greater
glory of music.
p. 131. une promesse de bonheur: a promise of hap-
piness.
le dhinteressement: disinterestedness.
p. 134. instrumentum diaboli: devil's instrument.
remedium: remedy.
p. 135. la betephilosophe: the philosophic beast.
optimum: best.
p. 136. pereat mundus, etc. : let the world perish, but
philosophy be made, let the philosopher
be made, let me be made!
p. 143. nitimur in vetitum: weBtrive towards the for-
bidden.
p. 144. je combats, etc. : I fight against a universal
spider's web.
p. 145. jus primes noctis: right of the first night. In
some cases (especially in France) the
feudal lord is said to have had a claim
upon his vassal's bride on the first
night of the latter's marriage. This
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right is, however, probably legendary,
or at any rate it was never exercised.
