We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

In the end one only experiences oneself.