You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.