He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.