Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.