84.  Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she—­forgets how to charm.

85.  The same emotions are in man and woman, but in different tempo, on that account man and woman never cease to misunderstand each other.

86.  In the background of all their personal vanity, women themselves have still their impersonal scorn—­for “woman”.

87.  Fettered heart, free spirit—­When one firmly fetters one’s heart and keeps it prisoner, one can allow one’s spirit many liberties:  I said this once before But people do not believe it when I say so, unless they know it already.

88.  One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.

89.  Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them is not something dreadful also.

90.  Heavy, melancholy men turn lighter, and come temporarily to their surface, precisely by that which makes others heavy—­by hatred and love.

91.  So cold, so icy, that one burns one’s finger at the touch of him!  Every hand that lays hold of him shrinks back!—­And for that very reason many think him red-hot.

92.  Who has not, at one time or another—­sacrificed himself for the sake of his good name?

93.  In affability there is no hatred of men, but precisely on that account a great deal too much contempt of men.

94.  The maturity of man—­that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

95.  To be ashamed of one’s immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of one’s morality.

96.  One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa—­ blessing it rather than in love with it.

97.  What?  A great man?  I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.

98.  When one trains one’s conscience, it kisses one while it bites.

99.  The disappointed one speaks—­“I listened for the echo and I heard only praise.”

100.  We all feign to ourselves that we are simpler than we are, we thus relax ourselves away from our fellows.

101.  A discerning one might easily regard himself at present as the animalization of God.

102.  Discovering reciprocal love should really disenchant the lover with regard to the beloved.  “What!  She is modest enough to love even you?  Or stupid enough?  Or—­or—–­”

103.  The danger in happiness.—­“Everything now turns out best for me, I now love every fate:—­who would like to be my fate?”

104.  Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today—­burning us.

105.  The pia fraus is still more repugnant to the taste (the “piety”) of the free spirit (the “pious man of knowledge”) than the impia fraus.  Hence the profound lack of judgment, in comparison with the Church, characteristic of the type “free spirit”—­as its non-freedom.