Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.