_Where are thy Greatest Dangers?_—In pity. 272. _What dost thou Love in others?_—My hopes. 273. _Whom dost thou call Bad?_—Him who always wants to put others to shame. 274. _What dost thou think most humane?_—To spare a person shame. 275. _What is the Seal of Liberty Attained?_—To be no longer ashamed of oneself. ----- Footnote 9: This means that true love does not look for reciprocity.—TR. BOOK FOURTH SANCTUS JANUARIUS Thou who with cleaving fiery lances The stream of my soul from its ice dost free, Till with a rush and a roar it advances To enter with glorious hoping the sea: Brighter to see and purer ever, Free in the bonds of thy sweet constraint,— So it praises thy wondrous endeavour, January, thou beauteous saint! _Genoa_, January 1882. 276. _For the New Year._—I still live, I still think; I must still live, for I must still think. _Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum._ To-day everyone takes the liberty of expressing his wish and his favourite thought: well, I also mean to tell what I have wished for myself to-day, and what thought first crossed my mind this year,—a thought which ought to be the basis, the pledge and the sweetening of all my future life! I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. _Amor fati_: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. _Looking aside_, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer! 277.