The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Man is something to be surpassed.