One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

There's no defense against stupidity.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.