The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

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