vita contemplativa:
contemplative
life.
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9.
la philosophic, etc.
: philosophy is not enough
for the mass of mankind; they need
holiness.
p. 11. bene, etc. : I made a good voyage when I have
been shipwrecked.
p. 13. Wagner est un ne"vrose: Wagner is a neurotic.
p. 14. par excellence : the very type of, down to the
ground.
p. 15. Pulchrum est paucorum hominum; see on
VII. , p. 64.
p. 17. Sursum: upwards!
Bumbum: a nonsense German exclamation
to mock high-sounding language.
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p. 18. sit venia verbo: may the word be excused.
p. 23. histrio: actor.
p. 24. ancilla dramaturgica: handmaid to drama.
p. 25. alia genovese: in the Genoese style.
recitativo secco: dry recitative.
leitmotif: leading motive (applied particu-
larly to the recurring phrase of a Wag-
ner opera).
p. 29. Wagnerus, etc. : these are the words of Wag-
ner, the leading authority on chastity.
en passant: in passing.
p. 32. la gaya scienza: the joyful wisdom.
p. 33. fable convenue: a legend agreed upon.
p. 38. in rebus musicis et viusicantibus: in matters
of music and musicians.
p. 40. cave canem: beware of the dog.
p. 50. femininigeneris: of the feminine gender.
le moi est toujours halssable: the ego is al-
ways hateful.
fceda superstitio: foul superstition.
p. 51. Quousque tandem, Crispi: How long, pray,
Crispi? Nietzsche here addresses to the
well-known Italian statesman Crispi the
words of Cicero to Catiline: Quousque
tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nos-
tra ? " How long, pray, Catilina, will
you abuse our patience? "
p. 59. petit fait vrai: little true fact.
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p. 60. pur sang: pure-blooded,
p. 62. haut-relief: high relief.
p. 67. Flaubert est, etc. : Flaubert is always de-
testable, the man is nothing, the work
is everything.
p. 6g. delicatesses: delicatenesses.
F&me moderne: the modern soul.
p. 79. amor fati: love of destiny.
p. 81. das, etc. : the veiled portrait at Sais.
p. 82. tout, etc. : to understand everything is to
despise everything. An allusion to the
saying of Mme de Stael: "To under-
stand everything is to pardon every-
thing. "
p. 90. Cest la, etc. : It is madness to seek to think
and feel beyond our strength.
p. 91. kuXog "2,aixptiLrris(kalos Sokrates):beautiful
Socrates.
p. 92. allegro con brio: lively with gusto.
p. 95. genres: kinds, schools (especially of art).
p. 96. allegro con fuoco: lively with fire.
p. 110. bene, etc. ; see above, on p. II.
p. 115. dubito: I doubt it.
p. 136. ilfaut: one must tell the truth and sacrifice
oneself.
p. 140. ut imprimis, etc. : that above all he may
prove of what use they may be in more
serious studies.
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p. 141. non tam, etc. : I do not fix so high a value
upon my little emendations as to hope
or demand any special favour from this
source.
p. 143. Texuai (technai) artes: arts.
p. 154. infimarum, etc. : for the lowest virtues of the
Greeks scholars have praise, for the
mediocre admiration, for the highest no
sense whatever.
p. 155. & PIOTEÚELV (aristeuein). No single equivalent
can be given for this peculiarly Greek
verb. It means, to show the virtues
and perform the actions of the best
type of man, of the aristocrat in the
highest sense. It seems almost dese-
cration to render this beautiful word
by a slang phrase: but really "play
the game” is our nearest English
expression. Pellentesen
Tóhos (polis): city, city-state.
p. 157. Ewopooórn (sophrosyne): temperance, self-
restraint.
p. 158. gravitas: dignity, seriousness. The quality
which the Romans most prided them-
selves on possessing.
nugari: to trifle, to play the fool.
p. 160. aiềv å protetsov (aien aristeuein); see above,
on p. 155; "aien"=always.
cyár (agon): contest used especially of the
games, poetical competitions, etc. , at
Greek festivals.
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p. 162. ratio : this Latin word has many senses, the
fundamental ones being “reason” or
"reckoning": here it seems to mean
“the rationalising spirit. ”
p. 164. pudendum; see on VI. , p. 70.
p. 166. vide tragoediam; see tragedy.
p. 181. police des moeurs : moral censorship.
IX. THE DAWN OF DAY.
p. 5. de fonder, etc. : to found upon earth the king-
dom of wisdom, justice and virtue.
p. 6. credo quia absurdum est; see on II. , p. 65.
p. 8. lento: slowly (musical term).
p. 18. post hoc: after this.
34. pia fraus: pious fraud.
41. arrière-pensées; see on VII. , p. 270.
p. 47. vita activa: active life.
p. 48.
vita contemplativa: contemplative life.
p. 49. pudenda origo ; shameful origin.
p. 50. abstracta: abstracts.
p. 54. nihil humani, etc. : I consider nothing human
strange to me. From Terence.
p. 59. spernere se sperni; see on VI. , p. 140.
spernere se ipsum: to despise one's self.
nan
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p. 61. arriere-penstes; see on VII. , p. 270.
p. 65. odium generis humani: hatred of the human
race. From Tacitus's famous account of
the alleged implication of the Christians
in the great fire of Rome under Nero.
Nietzsche takes the genitive generis
humani as objective: it may also be
subjective—"hatred felt for them by
the human race. "
p. 72. cere perennius; see on VI. , p. 36.
p. 92. deus absconditus: hidden god.
p. 93. in effigie: in effigy.
p. 99. O pudenda origo; see above, on p. 49.
p. 136. Moira; see on VII. , p. 229.
p. 137. vivre pour autrui: to live for others.
p. 138. On n'est, etc. : We are good only by virtue
of pity: therefore there must needs be
some element of pity in all our feelings.
p. 154. qualitas occulta: hidden quality.
p. 164. refugium: refuge.
p. 173. error veritate simplicior: error more straight-
forward than truth.
p. 175. Jwmo pamphagus: omnivorous man.
p. 179. credat Judceus Apella: let the Jew Apella
believe it. By this phrase in his Satires
Horace means "let a credulous person
believe this: I don't. " It seems strange,
perhaps, that the Jew should ever have
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been taken as a type of credulity: but
this was probably due to his being
credited by the Romans with numerous
inexplicable superstitions.
p. 193. esprit: wit.
p. 211. spernere se sperni; see on VI. , p. 140.
p. 215. bestia triumphans: triumphant beast. Per-
haps an allusion to Giordano Bruno's
book Spaccio della bestia trionfante.
p. 220. nil admirari; see on II. , p. 67.
p. 221. admirari estphilosophari: to wonder (or ad-
mire) is to be a philosopher.
p. 223. in summa: in sum.
p. 258. chi non ha non e: he who has not is not.
p. 263. profanum vulgus; see on II. , p. 156.
in maiorem deigloriam: to the greater glory
of God.
p. 267. facta: facts.
ficta: invented.
p. 303. remediunt amoris: remedy for love. "Re-
media Amoris" is the title of a well-
known poem of Ovid.
p. 304. credo quia absurdum est: I believe it because
it is absurd.
credo quia absurdus sum: I believe it because
I am absurd.
p. 311. embellir la nature: to improve upon nature,
p. 318. vita practica: practical life.
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p. 328. hic Rhodus hic salta: here is Rhodes, here
leap.
p. 335. ubi pater sum, ibi patria: where I am a
father (to an idea), there is my father-
land. The Latin proverb quoted in the
note means "where I am happy, there
is my fatherland. "
p. 353. bon ton: good form.
p. 357. gloria mundi: glory of the world.
X. The Joyful Wisdom
p. 3. incipit tragoedia: here begins the tragedy.
incipit parcedia: here begins the parody.
p. 21. et hoc genus omne: and all that breed.
primum scribere, deinde philosophari: first to
write, then to philosophise.
p. 46. andante: slow (musical term).
p. 49. raison d'etre: reason for existing.
p. 61. I'ordre du jour pour le roi: the order of the
day for the king.
p. 73. historia abscondita: hidden history.
p. 75. plaudite, etc. : applaud, my friends, the com-
edy is over.
qualis artifex pereo: what an artist is being
lost to the world in me!
qualis spectator pereo: what a spectator is be-
ing lost to the world in me!
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p. 77. hoc est ridiculum, hoc est absurdum: this is
ridiculous, this is absurd.
physis: nature, constitution.
p. 101. pudendum; see on VI. , p. 70.
p. 104. in eroticis: in matters of love.
p. 115. esprit: wit.
est magna res tacere: it is an important matter
to hold one's tongue.
p. 116. imperium Romanum: Roman Empire.
p. 118. ferocia animi: ferocity (or boldness) of soul.
melos: melody, song, lyric poem.
p. 125. Vita nuova: The New Life. Dante's auto-
biography.
p. 128. regime: rule, system.
p. 129. Ah! mon ami, etc. : Ah! my friend, I am
leaving this world, where the heart must
either break or steel itself.
for the mass of mankind; they need
holiness.
p. 11. bene, etc. : I made a good voyage when I have
been shipwrecked.
p. 13. Wagner est un ne"vrose: Wagner is a neurotic.
p. 14. par excellence : the very type of, down to the
ground.
p. 15. Pulchrum est paucorum hominum; see on
VII. , p. 64.
p. 17. Sursum: upwards!
Bumbum: a nonsense German exclamation
to mock high-sounding language.
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p. 18. sit venia verbo: may the word be excused.
p. 23. histrio: actor.
p. 24. ancilla dramaturgica: handmaid to drama.
p. 25. alia genovese: in the Genoese style.
recitativo secco: dry recitative.
leitmotif: leading motive (applied particu-
larly to the recurring phrase of a Wag-
ner opera).
p. 29. Wagnerus, etc. : these are the words of Wag-
ner, the leading authority on chastity.
en passant: in passing.
p. 32. la gaya scienza: the joyful wisdom.
p. 33. fable convenue: a legend agreed upon.
p. 38. in rebus musicis et viusicantibus: in matters
of music and musicians.
p. 40. cave canem: beware of the dog.
p. 50. femininigeneris: of the feminine gender.
le moi est toujours halssable: the ego is al-
ways hateful.
fceda superstitio: foul superstition.
p. 51. Quousque tandem, Crispi: How long, pray,
Crispi? Nietzsche here addresses to the
well-known Italian statesman Crispi the
words of Cicero to Catiline: Quousque
tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nos-
tra ? " How long, pray, Catilina, will
you abuse our patience? "
p. 59. petit fait vrai: little true fact.
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ESSAYS ON WAGNER
p. 60. pur sang: pure-blooded,
p. 62. haut-relief: high relief.
p. 67. Flaubert est, etc. : Flaubert is always de-
testable, the man is nothing, the work
is everything.
p. 6g. delicatesses: delicatenesses.
F&me moderne: the modern soul.
p. 79. amor fati: love of destiny.
p. 81. das, etc. : the veiled portrait at Sais.
p. 82. tout, etc. : to understand everything is to
despise everything. An allusion to the
saying of Mme de Stael: "To under-
stand everything is to pardon every-
thing. "
p. 90. Cest la, etc. : It is madness to seek to think
and feel beyond our strength.
p. 91. kuXog "2,aixptiLrris(kalos Sokrates):beautiful
Socrates.
p. 92. allegro con brio: lively with gusto.
p. 95. genres: kinds, schools (especially of art).
p. 96. allegro con fuoco: lively with fire.
p. 110. bene, etc. ; see above, on p. II.
p. 115. dubito: I doubt it.
p. 136. ilfaut: one must tell the truth and sacrifice
oneself.
p. 140. ut imprimis, etc. : that above all he may
prove of what use they may be in more
serious studies.
379
## p. 380 (#492) ############################################
VOCABULARY OF FOREIGN PHRASES
p. 141. non tam, etc. : I do not fix so high a value
upon my little emendations as to hope
or demand any special favour from this
source.
p. 143. Texuai (technai) artes: arts.
p. 154. infimarum, etc. : for the lowest virtues of the
Greeks scholars have praise, for the
mediocre admiration, for the highest no
sense whatever.
p. 155. & PIOTEÚELV (aristeuein). No single equivalent
can be given for this peculiarly Greek
verb. It means, to show the virtues
and perform the actions of the best
type of man, of the aristocrat in the
highest sense. It seems almost dese-
cration to render this beautiful word
by a slang phrase: but really "play
the game” is our nearest English
expression. Pellentesen
Tóhos (polis): city, city-state.
p. 157. Ewopooórn (sophrosyne): temperance, self-
restraint.
p. 158. gravitas: dignity, seriousness. The quality
which the Romans most prided them-
selves on possessing.
nugari: to trifle, to play the fool.
p. 160. aiềv å protetsov (aien aristeuein); see above,
on p. 155; "aien"=always.
cyár (agon): contest used especially of the
games, poetical competitions, etc. , at
Greek festivals.
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p. 162. ratio : this Latin word has many senses, the
fundamental ones being “reason” or
"reckoning": here it seems to mean
“the rationalising spirit. ”
p. 164. pudendum; see on VI. , p. 70.
p. 166. vide tragoediam; see tragedy.
p. 181. police des moeurs : moral censorship.
IX. THE DAWN OF DAY.
p. 5. de fonder, etc. : to found upon earth the king-
dom of wisdom, justice and virtue.
p. 6. credo quia absurdum est; see on II. , p. 65.
p. 8. lento: slowly (musical term).
p. 18. post hoc: after this.
34. pia fraus: pious fraud.
41. arrière-pensées; see on VII. , p. 270.
p. 47. vita activa: active life.
p. 48.
vita contemplativa: contemplative life.
p. 49. pudenda origo ; shameful origin.
p. 50. abstracta: abstracts.
p. 54. nihil humani, etc. : I consider nothing human
strange to me. From Terence.
p. 59. spernere se sperni; see on VI. , p. 140.
spernere se ipsum: to despise one's self.
nan
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p. 61. arriere-penstes; see on VII. , p. 270.
p. 65. odium generis humani: hatred of the human
race. From Tacitus's famous account of
the alleged implication of the Christians
in the great fire of Rome under Nero.
Nietzsche takes the genitive generis
humani as objective: it may also be
subjective—"hatred felt for them by
the human race. "
p. 72. cere perennius; see on VI. , p. 36.
p. 92. deus absconditus: hidden god.
p. 93. in effigie: in effigy.
p. 99. O pudenda origo; see above, on p. 49.
p. 136. Moira; see on VII. , p. 229.
p. 137. vivre pour autrui: to live for others.
p. 138. On n'est, etc. : We are good only by virtue
of pity: therefore there must needs be
some element of pity in all our feelings.
p. 154. qualitas occulta: hidden quality.
p. 164. refugium: refuge.
p. 173. error veritate simplicior: error more straight-
forward than truth.
p. 175. Jwmo pamphagus: omnivorous man.
p. 179. credat Judceus Apella: let the Jew Apella
believe it. By this phrase in his Satires
Horace means "let a credulous person
believe this: I don't. " It seems strange,
perhaps, that the Jew should ever have
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been taken as a type of credulity: but
this was probably due to his being
credited by the Romans with numerous
inexplicable superstitions.
p. 193. esprit: wit.
p. 211. spernere se sperni; see on VI. , p. 140.
p. 215. bestia triumphans: triumphant beast. Per-
haps an allusion to Giordano Bruno's
book Spaccio della bestia trionfante.
p. 220. nil admirari; see on II. , p. 67.
p. 221. admirari estphilosophari: to wonder (or ad-
mire) is to be a philosopher.
p. 223. in summa: in sum.
p. 258. chi non ha non e: he who has not is not.
p. 263. profanum vulgus; see on II. , p. 156.
in maiorem deigloriam: to the greater glory
of God.
p. 267. facta: facts.
ficta: invented.
p. 303. remediunt amoris: remedy for love. "Re-
media Amoris" is the title of a well-
known poem of Ovid.
p. 304. credo quia absurdum est: I believe it because
it is absurd.
credo quia absurdus sum: I believe it because
I am absurd.
p. 311. embellir la nature: to improve upon nature,
p. 318. vita practica: practical life.
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VOCABULARY OF FOREIGN PHRASES
p. 328. hic Rhodus hic salta: here is Rhodes, here
leap.
p. 335. ubi pater sum, ibi patria: where I am a
father (to an idea), there is my father-
land. The Latin proverb quoted in the
note means "where I am happy, there
is my fatherland. "
p. 353. bon ton: good form.
p. 357. gloria mundi: glory of the world.
X. The Joyful Wisdom
p. 3. incipit tragoedia: here begins the tragedy.
incipit parcedia: here begins the parody.
p. 21. et hoc genus omne: and all that breed.
primum scribere, deinde philosophari: first to
write, then to philosophise.
p. 46. andante: slow (musical term).
p. 49. raison d'etre: reason for existing.
p. 61. I'ordre du jour pour le roi: the order of the
day for the king.
p. 73. historia abscondita: hidden history.
p. 75. plaudite, etc. : applaud, my friends, the com-
edy is over.
qualis artifex pereo: what an artist is being
lost to the world in me!
qualis spectator pereo: what a spectator is be-
ing lost to the world in me!
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p. 77. hoc est ridiculum, hoc est absurdum: this is
ridiculous, this is absurd.
physis: nature, constitution.
p. 101. pudendum; see on VI. , p. 70.
p. 104. in eroticis: in matters of love.
p. 115. esprit: wit.
est magna res tacere: it is an important matter
to hold one's tongue.
p. 116. imperium Romanum: Roman Empire.
p. 118. ferocia animi: ferocity (or boldness) of soul.
melos: melody, song, lyric poem.
p. 125. Vita nuova: The New Life. Dante's auto-
biography.
p. 128. regime: rule, system.
p. 129. Ah! mon ami, etc. : Ah! my friend, I am
leaving this world, where the heart must
either break or steel itself.
