_Danger in the Voice._--With a very loud voice a person is almost incapable of reflecting on subtle matters. 217. _Cause and Effect._--Before the effect one believes in other causes than after the effect. 218. _My Antipathy._--I do not like those people who, in order to produce an effect, have to burst like bombs, and in whose neighbourhood one is always in danger of suddenly losing one's hearing--or even something more. 219. _The Object of Punishment._--The object of punishment is to improve him _who punishes,_--that is the ultimate appeal of those who justify punishment. 220. _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, seriously endangered by the 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.