A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Love, too, has to be learned.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.