What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.