Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.