Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.