Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.