Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?