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

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.