He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.