Was that life? Well then, once more!

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

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

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'