_In Solitude._—When one lives alone one does not speak too loudly, and one does not write too loudly either, for one fears the hollow reverberation—the criticism of the nymph Echo.—And all voices sound differently in solitude! 183. _The Music of the Best Future._—The first musician for me would be he who knew only the sorrow of the profoundest happiness, and no other sorrow: there has not hitherto been such a musician. 184. _Justice._—Better allow oneself to be robbed than have scarecrows around one—that is my taste. And under all circumstances it is just a matter of taste—and nothing more! 185. _Poor._—He is now poor, but not because everything has been taken from him, but because he has thrown everything away:—what does he care? He is accustomed to find new things.—It is the poor who misunderstand his voluntary poverty. 186. _Bad Conscience._—All that he now does is excellent and proper—and yet he has a bad conscience with it all. For the exceptional is his task. 187. _Offensiveness in Expression._—This artist offends me by the way in which he expresses his ideas, his very excellent ideas: so diffusely and forcibly, and with such gross rhetorical artifices, as if he were speaking to the mob. We feel always as if "in bad company" when devoting some time to his art. 188. _Work._—How close work and the workers now stand even to the most leisurely of us! The royal courtesy in the words: "We are all workers," would have been a cynicism and an indecency even under Louis XIV. 189. _The Thinker._—He is a thinker: that is to say, he knows how to take things more simply than they are. 190. _Against Eulogisers._—A: "One is only praised by one's equals!" B: "Yes! And he who praises you says: 'You are my equal!'" 191. _Against many a Vindication._—The most perfidious manner of injuring a cause is to vindicate it intentionally with fallacious arguments. 192. _The Good-natured._—What is it that distinguishes the good-natured, whose countenances beam kindness, from other people? They feel quite at ease in presence of a new person, and are quickly enamoured of him; they therefore wish him well; their first opinion is: "He pleases me." With them there follow in succession the wish to appropriate (they make little scruple about the person's worth), rapid appropriation, joy in the possession, and actions in favour of the person possessed. 193.