The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.