61 It … badly: W2.558
62 The … present: W2.557
63 What … children: W2.545
64 between … itself: W2.536
65 To … it: W2.354
66 Contemplate … exertions: W2.353
67 There … disappointment: W2.634
68 What … them: P1.VI.480
69 The … life: W2.427
70 ‘Lotte … you!’: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe, translated by Michael Hulse, Penguin, 1989, p. 115
71 The … thousands: P2.XIX.208
72 In … sufferer: W1.206
Consolation for Difficulties
Quotations taken from:
Daybreak
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, CUP, 1997 (abbreviated as D)
Ecce Homo
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1979 (abbreviated as EH)
Beyond Good and Evil
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1973 (abbreviated as BGE)
Human, All Too Human
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, CUP, 1996 (abbreviated as HAH)
Wanderer and His Shadow
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale and collected in HAH (Ibid.), CUP, 1996 (abbreviated as WS)
Untimely Meditations
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale, CUP, 1997 (abbreviated as UM)
The Anti-Christ
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale and collected in
Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ
, Penguin, 1990 (abbreviated as AC)
The Will to Power
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann & R. J. Hollingdale, Vintage, 1968 (abbreviated as WP)
The Gay Science
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Vintage, 1974 (abbreviated as GS)
Twilight of the Idols
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Duncan Large, OUP, 1998 (abbreviated as TI)
On the Genealogy of Morality
, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Carol Diethe, CUP, 1996 (abbreviated as GM)
Sämtliche Briefe: Kritische Studienausgabe
, Friedrich Nietzsche, 8 volumes, DTV and de Gruyter, 1975–84 (abbreviated as Letter to/from followed by day/month/year)
1 cabbage-heads: EH. 3.5
2 It … being: EH. 14.1
3 I … holy: EH. 14.1
4 Let … 2000: Letter to Malwida von Meysenbug, 24/9/86
5 It … boots: EH. 3.1
6 You … been!: BGE. 225
7 To … vanquished: WP. 910
8 the … given: EH. Foreword, 4
9 In … treated: D. 381
10 I … resignation: from Rückblick auf meine zwei Leipziger Jahre, III.133, Werke, Karl Schlechta Edition
11 The … pleasure: Schopenhauer, W2.150
12 [We … mentaclass="underline" Schopenhauer, P1.V.a.1
13 we … abstinence: Letter to his mother and sister, 5/11/65
14 I … joy: Letter from Malwida von Meysenbug, 28/10/76
15 The … boring: TI. X.2
16 These … hitherto: EH. 2.10
17 Would … side: Letter to Cosima Wagner, 19/12/76
18 in … room: Schopenhauer, P1.V.a.1
19 hidden … deer: GS. 283
20 that … goose: Letter to Malwida von Meysenbug, early May 1884
21 Really … Montaigne: Letter to his mother, 3/21/85
22 gentle … eggs: D. 553
23 magnificent: TI.IX.49
24 the … reverence: TI. IX.51
25 He … wilclass="underline" TI. IX.49
26 The … profound: Stendhal, Voyages en France, Pleiade, p. 365
27 The … copulation: Montaigne, Essays, III.5.968
28 the … frightened: Stendhal, Oeuvres Intimes, Volume I, Pleiade, p. 483
29 Art … life: TI. IX.24
30 What … joy: GS. 12
31 Examine … possible: GS. 19
32 The … world: HAH. I.163 (my italics)
33 He … mountains: EH. Foreword, 3
34 We … sense: GM. II.24
35 In … tomorrow: HAH. II.358
36 To … comprehensible!: UM. III.5
37 I … Swiss!: Letter to his mother, 19/7/70
38 I … own: Letter to Paul Rée, end of July 1879
39 This … myself: Letter to Peter Gast, 14/8/81
40 I … ground: Letter to Carl von Gersdorff, 28/6/83
41 How … books?: WS. 324
42 Only … value: TI. I.34
43 When … humanity: HAH. I.246
44 We … life: Montaigne, Essays, III.13.1237
45 If … manure: HAH. II.332
46 Don’t … whole: HAH. I.163
47 You … strain: Letter to his mother, 21/7/79
48 One … trellis: D. 560
49 the … sui: TI. III.4
50 good … things: BGE. 2
51 Love … together: WP. 351
52 The … life: BGE. 23
53 The … culture: WP. 1025
54 Nothing … annihilation: HAH. II.220
55 All … hurting: TI. v.1
56 Dear … afternoon: Letter to his mother, 16/4/63
57 I … materialism: Letter to Carl von Gersdorff, 25/4/65
58 Alcoholic … live: EH. 2.1
59 How … intelligence!: TI. VIII.2
60 Perhaps … Europe: GS. III.134
61 I … suffices: EH. 2.1
62 If … together: GS. 338
63 [A]ctions … pleasure: Utilitarianism, J. S. Mill, Chapter 2, paragraph 2, Penguin, 1994
64 European … England: BGE. 253
65 Man … that: TI. I.9
66 All … derision: BGE. 225
67 The … Vesuvius!: GS. 283
68 To … absurdity: EH. 2.1
69 He … pastor … guide: III.93. Werke, Karl Schlechta Edition
70 I … depravity: AC. 62
71 One … governor: AC. 46
72 It … today: AC. 38
73 The … Christianity: TI. VIII.2
74 not- … -revenge: GM. I.14
75 a … accomplishment: GM. I.13
76 the … comfortableness: GS. 338
77 the … antiquity: WS. 7
78 one … philosophizing: WS. 295
79 It … like-minded: Letter to Paul Deussen, ?/2/70
80 Do … thinking?: Letter to Mathilde Trempedach, 11/4/76
81 He … opera: Diary, Cosima Wagner, 4/4/74
82 The … time: Letter from Hans von Bülow, 24/7/72
83 You … is: Letter from Hans von Bülow, 24/7/72
84 For … woman!: Letter from Richard Wagner, 26/12/74
85 Ariadne … you: Postcard to Cosima Wagner, ?/1/89
86 Thanks … ‘me’: Letter to Franz Overbeck, late March or early April 1886
87 I … learn!: Letter to Lou Salomé, 2/7/82
88 My … me: Letter to Franz Overbeck, 25/12/82
89 I … them: Letter to Franz Overbeck, ?/3/83
90 scraped … sheep: Letter to his mother, 4/10/84
91 As … time: Letter to Malwida von Meysenbug, 14/1/80
92 Constant … music!: Letter to Doctor Otto Eiser, ?/1/80
93 for … woman: HAH. I.384
94 Early … vicious!: EH. 2.8
95 no … denies: TI. IX.49
96 The … complaint: D. 52 (my italics)
97 To … weather: EH. 14.4
Acknowledgments
I am much indebted to the following authorities for their comments on chapters of this book: Dr Robin Waterfield (for Socrates), Professor David Sedley (for Epicurus), Professor Martin Ferguson Smith (for Epicurus), Professor C. D. N. Costa (for Seneca), the Reverend Professor Michael Screech (for Montaigne), Reg Hollingdale (for Schopenhauer) and Dr Duncan Large (for Nietzsche). I am also greatly indebted to the following for their comments: John Armstrong, Harriet Braun, Michele Hutchison, Noga Arikha and Miriam Gross. I would like to thank: Simon Prosser, Lesley Shaw, Helen Fraser, Michael Lynton, Juliet Annan, Gráinne Kelly, Anna Kobryn, Caroline Dawnay, Annabel Hardman, Miriam Berkeley, Chloe Chancellor, Lisabel McDonald, Kim Witherspoon and Dan Frank.