Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.