What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!