The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!