Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.