The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.