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 _Aufklarung_ there is a play on the sense "clearing up" (of weather) and "enlightenment."-TR.
25 Stendhal.-TR.
26 A transposition of _sacrifizio dell" intelletto_, the Jesuit maxim.-TR.
27 The original, by a curious slip, has "seventh."-TR.
28 Clearly autobiographical. Nietzsche, like all great men, pa.s.sed 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 Saume, 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 ???? (dog).-TR.