What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

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?

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.