Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.