Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.