Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.