The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.