Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.