Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.