Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?