55 Winter … endure: Epistulae Morales, CVII.7–9
56 Quid … est: De Consolatione ad Marciam, xi.1
Consolation for Inadequacy
Quotations taken from:
The Complete Essays
, Michel de Montaigne, translated by M. A. Screech, Penguin, 1991. The notes refer firstly to the book number, then the essay number and lastly the page number.
1 I … lettuces: II.17.741
2 I … day: III.3.933
3 splendid … views: III.3.933
4 the … was: II.12.558
5 strikingly … humour: II.10.463
6 It … books: III.3.932
7 There … vexation: II.12.544
8 Man … [Cicero]: II.12.544
9 the … shit: II.37.870
10 Wherever … equinox: II.12.534
11 If … length: II.534
12 here … Trebizond?: II.12.517
13 Dare … pig?: I.14.57
14 We … excessive: II.12.541
15 To … blockheads: III.13.219
16 Our … behind: III.5.1005
17 When … unapproachable: II.12.637
18 then … soul: II.37.865
19 That … them: I.21.115
20 most … disorderly: I.21.116
21 so … death: I.21.116
22 [This] … it: III.5.994
23 He … blindfolded: I.3.15
24 The … being: III.13.1261
25 Except … once: I.21.112
26 admit … him: I.21.112
27 [The … it: I.21.115
28 to … offence: II.29.801
29 If … all: I.21.115
30 every … condition: III.2.908
31 Au … cul: III.13.1269
32 Les … aussi: III.13.1231
33 The … teeth: III.5.956
34 She … ditch: III.5.967
35 old crone: III.5.967
36 Had … naked: introductory note
37 Every … complete: III.5.1004
38 Everywhere … it!: III.5.992
39 Of … disrupted: III.13.1232
40 My … bed: III.13.1232
41 When … wise: III.5.992
42 What … power?: III.9.1119
43 It … being: III.9.1121
44 May … apart?: III.5.1010
45 Once … clime: III.9.1114
46 It … ours: III.13.1226
47 Each … wonder: III.13.1226
48 When … world’: I.26.176
49 They … sauces: I.23.123
50 scrupulously … cords: II.12.647
51 gathered … cloth: I.23.125
52 In … shoulders: II.12.538
53 Their … wives: I.31.234
54 One … valour: I.31.239
55 We … bows: II.12.521
56 Ah!… breeches …: I.31.241
57 Every … anything!: I.31.231
58 Defending … country: I.23.126
59 The … nothing: II.12.558
60 the … perspicuity: II.12.606
61 that … itself: III.13.1220
62 Anyone … heights: II.12.613
63 In … fire: III.9.1110
64 We … other: I.28.212
65 What … found: I.28.211
66 Luy … image: III.9.1112 (footnote)
67 In … on: I.28.217
68 painful … harm: p. 125, Montaigne’s Travel Journal, translated by Donald M. Frame, North Point Press, 1983
69 Many … stall: III.9.1109
70 If … life: II.12.543
71 What … gout …?: II.12.542
72 I … etymology: II.17.749
73 We … empty: I.25.153–4
74 At … all: II.17.730
75 If … tennis: I.25.156
76 I … feet: II.12.604
77 Storming … lives: III.2.912
78 About … face: II.29.800
79 I … gardening: I.20.99
80 I … lettuces: III.17.741
81 It … capacities: III.5.971
83 If … shit!’: I.38.264
84 The … being: III.13.1261
85 I … rectors: II.12.542
86 I … [them]: II.17.740
87 I … interest: I.39.276
88 I … another: II.10.459
89 Difficulty … payment: II.12.566
90 Just … Paris: I.26.194
91 The … paraded: III.12.1173
92 The … yourself: II.17.746
93 … French: III.5.989
94 … them: III.5.989
95 Whenever … arse: I.25.155
96 In … everything: I.26.170
97 I … reputations: II.10.458 (my italics)
98 No … born: Seneca, Consolation to Helvia, XV.4
99 If … may: III.12.1196
100 In … spread: III.2.912
101 A … families: III.2.912
102 We … do: I.25.154
103 Invention … quotation: III.12. 1197
104 Will … say?: II.10.465
105 His … wind: II.10.464
106 There … dearth: III.13.1212
107 Were … man: III.13.1218
108 We … us: III.12.1175
109 You … stuff: III.2.908
110 I … melons: III.13.1251
111 I … again: III.13.1252
112 My … meals: III.13.1250
113 In … fingers: III.13.1255
114 I … course: III.13.1230
Consolation for a Broken Heart
Quotations taken from:
Parerga and Paralipomena
, volumes
I
and
II
, Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. F. Payne, OUP, 1972 (abbreviated as P1 and P2)
The World as Will and Representation
, volumes
I
and
II
, Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. F. J. Payne, Dover Publications, 1966 (abbreviated as W1 and W2, followed by page number)
Manuscript Remains
(4 volumes), Arthur Schopenhauer, edited by A. Hübscher, Berg, 1988 (abbreviated as MR)
Gesammelte Briefe
, Arthur Schopenhauer, edited by A. Hübscher, Bonn, 1978 (abbreviated as GB)
Gespräche
, Arthur Schopenhauer, edited by A. Hübscher, Stuttgart, 1971 (abbreviated as G)
Schopenhauer und die wilden Jahre der Philosophie
, Rüdiger Safranski, Rowohlt, 1990
1 We … nothingness: P2.XII.156
2 Human … error: P2.XI.287
3 It … happens: P2.XII.155
4 Even … despair: MR4.2.121
5 In … hand: MR4.2.36
6 I … nation: Safranski, p. 74
7 These … humans: Safranski, p. 78
8 pondering … misery: Safranski, p. 48
9 life … effort: G.15
10 serene … ever!: Safranski, p. 267
11 Young … man: GB.267
12 Sometimes … self-deception: MR1.597
13 A … monologues?: MR3.1.50
14 We … weather: MR1.628
15 I … me: G.239
16 Only … sex: P2.XXVII.369
17 Every … suffering: MR3.1.76
18 If … me: MR3.1.26
19 [I]ts … bedlamite: P1.3.144
20 That … Pope: MR3.3.12
21 To … other: MR4.7.50
22 Of … one!: MR4.4.131
23 any … like: GB.83
24 a … society: GB.106
25 If … heart: MR3.1.139
26 How … hare-hunt: MR3.4.26
27 After … misanthropy: P1.VI.482
28 I … me: G.58
29 Life … illusion: P2.XI.146
30 a … approach: Safranski, p. 419
31 The … heart: M14.7.25
32 The … dogs: P2.XII.153
34 common biped: Safranski, p. 422
35 I … on: W2.30
36 the … people: W1.356
37 Two … manner: Safranski, p. 427
38 If … again: MR3.2.90
39 Human … deal: W2.243
40 Not … form: W, preface, 1844
41 Our … how: P1.298
42 the … fame: Safranski, p. 18
43 Would … minds?: MR3.II.5
44 suited … long: P2.614–26
45 She … married: G.225
46 I … shudder: MR4.7.102
47 human … error: P2.XI.287
48 We … material: W2.532
49 Love … happiness: W2.533
50 Why … it: W2.534
51 What … come: W2.534
52 [The … everything: W2.210
53 [It] … will: W2.209
54 The … individual: W2.536
55 There … two: W2.549
56 Everyone … produced: W2.546
57 The … other: W2.546
58 That … fortune: W2.558
59 Love … interest: W2.555
60 Has … heard: P2.XIV.166
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 … mental: 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 … will: 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
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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.
Copyright Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for permission to reproduce extracts from previously published material:
Cambridge University Press: Human All Too Human, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, 1996; and On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Carol Diethe, 1996; Dover Publications: World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. Duncan Large, 1988; Oxford University Press: extracts reprinted from Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Duncan Large (Oxford World’s Classics, 1998), by permission of Oxford University Press; extracts reprinted from Parerga and Paralipomena, Arthur Schopenhauer, (volumes I and II, trans. E. F. Payne, 1974) by permission of Oxford University Press; Penguin Books: Early Socratic Dialogues, Plato, trans. Iain Lane, 1987; The Last Days of Socrates, Plato, trans. Hugh Tredennick, 1987; Protagoras and Meno, Plato, trans. W. K. C. Guthrie, 1987; Dialogues and Letters, Seneca, trans. C. D. N. Costa, 1997; Letters from a Stoic, Seneca, trans. Robin Campbell, 1969; The Complete Essays, Michel de Montaigne, trans. M. A. Screech, 1991; Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, 1996; and Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, 1979; Random House, Inc.: extracts from The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale. Copyright © 1967 by Walter Kaufmann. Extracts from The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann. Copyright © 1974 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
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