Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.