Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

The doer alone learneth.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?