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

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".