_Kant's Joke._—Kant tried to prove, in a way that dismayed "everybody," that "everybody" was in the right:—that was his secret joke. He wrote against the learned, in favour of popular prejudice; he wrote, however, for the learned and not for the people. 194. _The "Open-hearted" Man._—That man acts probably always from concealed motives; for he has always communicable motives on his tongue, and almost in his open hand. 195. _Laughable!_—See! See! He runs _away_ from men—: they follow him, however, because he runs _before_ them,—they are such a gregarious lot! 196. _The Limits of our Sense of Hearing._—We hear only the questions to which we are capable of finding an answer. 197. _Caution therefore!_—There is nothing we are fonder of communicating to others than the seal of secrecy—together with what is under it. 198. _Vexation of the Proud Man._—The proud man is vexed even with those who help him forward: he looks angrily at his carriage-horses! 199. _Liberality._—Liberality is often only a form of timidity in the rich. 200. _Laughing._—To laugh means to love mischief, but with a good conscience. 201. _In Applause._—In applause there is always some kind of noise: even in self-applause. 202. _A Spendthrift._—He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,—he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature. 203. _Hic niger est._—Usually he has no thoughts,—but in exceptional cases bad thoughts come to him. 204. _Beggars and Courtesy._—"One is not discourteous when one knocks at a door with a stone when the bell-pull is awanting"—so think all beggars and necessitous persons, but no one thinks they are in the right. 205. _Need._—Need is supposed to be the cause of things; but in truth it is often only the effect of the things themselves. 206. _During the Rain._—It rains, and I think of the poor people who now crowd together with their many cares, which they are unaccustomed to conceal; all of them, therefore, ready and anxious to give pain to one another, and thus provide themselves with a pitiable kind of comfort, even in bad weather. This, this only, is the poverty of the poor! 207. _The Envious Man._—That is an envious man—it is not desirable that he should have children; he would be envious of them, because he can no longer be a child. 208.