5 The German word _Mitfreude_, coined by Nietzsche in opposition to _Mitleid_ (sympathy), is untranslateable.—TR.
6 Herostratus of Ephesus (in 356 B.C.) set fire to the temple of Diana in order (as he confessed on the rack) to gain notoriety.—TR.
8 This, of course, refers to Jesus and Socrates.—TR.
9 Queen of the Amazons, slain by Achilles in the Trojan War.—TR.
10 From Schiller, _Wallenstein’s Lager_: “Wer den Besten seiner Zeit genug gethan, der hat gelebt für alle Zeiten” (“He that has satisfied the best men of his time has lived for all time”).
11 In German _Barockstil_, _i.e._ the degenerate post-Renaissance style in art and literature, which spread from Italy in the seventeenth century.—TR.
12 The original word, _Freizügig_, means, in the modern German Empire, possessing the free right of migration, without pecuniary burdens or other restrictions, from one German state to another. The play on words in _Zug zur Freiheit_ (“impulse to freedom”) is 13 Nietzsche seems to allude to his own case, for he ultimately contracted a myopia which bordered on blindness.—TR.
14 The play on _bergen_ (shelter) and _verbergen_ (hide) is 15 Allusion to German proverb: “Where there is nothing, the Emperor has lost his rights.”—TR.
16 Genesis xiii. 9.—TR.
17 Luke viii. 33.—TR.
18 The play on Freudenschaften (_i.e._ pleasure-giving passions) and _Leidenschaften_ (_i.e._ pain-giving passions) is often used by Nietzsche, and is untranslateable.—_Tr._ 19 The wife of the Stoic Thrasea Paetus, when their complicity in the great conspiracy of 65 A.D. against Nero was discovered, is reported to have said as she committed suicide, “It doesn’t hurt, Paetus.”—_Tr._ 20 It is interesting to compare this judgment with Carlyle’s praise of Jean Paul. The dressing-gown is an allusion to Jean Paul’s favourite costume.—TR.
21 The German copyright expires thirty years after publication.—TR.
22 Nietzsche himself was extremely short-sighted.—TR.
23 In the sixth century B.C. Pythagoras founded at Croton a “school” somewhat resembling a monastic order. Among the ordeals for novitiates was enforced silence for five years.—TR.
24 In the German _Aufklärung_ there is a play on the sense “clearing up” (of weather) and “enlightenment.”—TR.
25 Stendhal.—TR.
maxim.—TR.
27 The original, by a curious slip, has “seventh.”—TR.
28 Clearly autobiographical. Nietzsche, like all great men, passed through a period of modesty and doubt.—TR.
29 Nietzsche here alludes to his own countrymen.—TR.
30 An allusion to the poem “Der Wilde” (The Savage) by Säume, which ends with the line, “Sehet, wir wilden sind doch bessere Menschen” (Behold, after all, we savages are better men).—TR.
31 Diogenes, founder of the Cynic school, which derived its name from κυών (dog).—TR.