The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.