Energy wasted on negative ends.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.