_Sacrifice._—The victims think otherwise than the spectators about sacrifice and sacrificing: but they have never been allowed to express their opinion. 221. _Consideration._—Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. 222. _Poet and Liar._—The poet sees in the liar his foster-brother whose milk he has drunk up; the latter has thus remained wretched, and has not even attained to a good conscience. 223. _Vicariousness of the Senses._—"We have also eyes in order to hear with them,"—said an old confessor who had grown deaf; "and among the blind he that has the longest ears is king." 224. _Animal Criticism._—I fear the animals regard man as a being like themselves, very seriously endangered by a loss of sound animal understanding;—they regard him perhaps as the absurd animal, the laughing animal, the crying animal, the unfortunate animal. 225. _The Natural._—"Evil has always had the great effect! And Nature is evil! Let us therefore be natural!"—so reason secretly the great aspirants after effect, who are too often counted among great men. 226. _The Distrustful and their Style._—We say the strongest things simply, provided people are about us who believe in our strength:—such an environment educates to "simplicity of style." The distrustful, on the other hand, speak emphatically; they make things emphatic. 227. _Fallacy, Fallacy._—He cannot rule himself; therefore that woman concludes that it will be easy to rule him, and throws out her lines to catch him;—the poor creature, who in a short time will be his slave. 228. _Against Mediators._—He who attempts to mediate between two decided thinkers is rightly called mediocre: he has not an eye for seeing the unique; similarising and equalising are signs of weak eyes. 229. _Obstinacy and Loyalty._—Out of obstinacy he holds fast to a cause of which the questionableness has become obvious,—he calls that, however, his "loyalty." 230. _Lack of Reserve._—His whole nature fails to _convince_—that results from the fact that he has never been reticent about a good action he has performed. 231. _The "Plodders."_—Persons slow of apprehension think that slowness forms part of knowledge. 232. _Dreaming._—Either one does not dream at all, or one dreams in an interesting manner. One must learn to be awake in the same fashion:—either not at all, or in an interesting manner. 233.