Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.