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

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.