The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Humility has the toughest hide.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?