Pity makes suffering contagious.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

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.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.