Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.