_Apart._--Parliamentarism, that is to say, the public permission to choose between five main political opinions, insinuates itself into the favour of the numerous class who would fain _appear_ independent and individual, and like to fight for their opinions. After all, however, it is a matter of indifference whether one opinion is imposed upon the herd, or five opinions are permitted to it.--He who diverges from the five public opinions and goes apart, has always the whole herd against him. 175. _Concerning Eloquence._--What has hitherto had the most convincing eloquence? The rolling of the drum: and as long as kings have this at their command, they will always be the best orators and popular leaders. 176. _Compassion._--The poor, ruling princes! All their rights now change unexpectedly into claims, and all these claims immediately sound like pretensions! And if they but say "we," or "my people," wicked old Europe begins laughing. Verily, a chief-master-of-ceremonies of the modern world would make little ceremony with them; perhaps he would decree that "_les souverains rangent aux parvenus._" 177. _On "Educational Matters."_--In Germany an important educational means is lacking for higher men; namely, the laughter of higher men; these men do not laugh in Germany. 178. _For Moral Enlightenment_.--The Germans must be talked out of their Mephistopheles--and out of their Faust also. These are two moral prejudices against the value of knowledge. 179. _Thoughts.--_Thoughts are the shadows of our sentiments--always however obscurer, emptier and simpler. 180. _The Good Time for Free Spirits._--Free Spirits take liberties even with regard to Science--and meanwhile they are allowed to do so,--while the Church still remains!--In so far they have now their good time. 181. _Following and Leading._--A: "Of the two, the one will always follow, the other will always lead, whatever be the course of their destiny. _And yet_ the former is superior to the other in virtue and intellect." B: "And yet? And yet? That is spoken for the others; not for me, not for us!--_Fit secundum regulam._" 182. _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.