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Rh of life. But this judgment of cheerfulness is nothing but its refraction on the gloomy background of weariness and disease; it is itself something touching, irrational, pitiable, nay, even childlike and childish, but belonging to that second childhood which follows in the wake of old age and is the forerunner of death. —It is not enough to prove a case, we must also mislead and lead others to it. Wherefore the wise man ought to learn how to impart his wisdom —and often to do so in such a manner as to make it savour of folly. —Asceticism is the right mode of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual cravings, because these are ferocious beasts. Only such should practise asceticism. —An artist who does not wish to rent his highly pent-up feelings in his work, thus unburdening himself, but who, on the contrary, is desirous of imparting these very feelings to others, is pompous; and his style is the bombastic style. —We do not look upon animals as upon