The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.