I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.
Friedrich NietzscheIt quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .
Friedrich NietzscheA man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Friedrich Nietzsche