Editing Beyond Good and Evil (section)

== Aphorisms and poetry ==

Between §&nbsp;62 and §&nbsp;186 Nietzsche inserts a collection of mostly single-sentence aphorisms, modelled on [[French people|French]] aphorists such as [[François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)|La Rochefoucauld]]. Twelve of these (§§&nbsp;84, 85, 86, 114, 115, 127, 131, 139, 144, 145, 147, 148) concern women or the distinction between men and women. Other subjects touched on include his doctrine of the [[eternal recurrence]] (§&nbsp;70), music (§&nbsp;106) and utilitarianism (§&nbsp;174), among more general attempts at trenchant observations about human nature.

The work concludes with a short ode to friendship in verse form (continuing Nietzsche's use of poetry in ''[[The Gay Science]]'' and ''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]'').