an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

147. From old Florentine novels — moreover, from life: Buona femmina e mala femmina vuol bastone. — Sacchetti, Nov. 86.

148. To seduce their neighbour to a favourable opinion, and afterwards to believe implicitly in this opinion of their neighbour — who can do this conjuring trick so well as women?

149. That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good — the atavism of an old ideal.

150. Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the demigod everything becomes a satyr-play; and around God everything becomes — what? perhaps a “world”?

151. It is not enough to possess a talent: one must also have your permission to possess it; —