But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.