misunderstandings and mistakes amuse by their refinement — or one will have to pay dearly for it! — ”He praises me, THEREFORE he acknowledges me to be right” — this asinine method of inference spoils half of the life of us recluses, for it brings the asses into our neighbourhood and friendship.

284. To live in a vast and proud tranquility; always beyond... To have, or not to have, one’s emotions, one’s For and Against, according to choice; to lower oneself to them for hours; to SEAT oneself on them as upon horses, and often as upon asses: — for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as well as of their fire.

To conserve one’s three hundred foregrounds; also one’s black spectacles: for there are circumstances when