Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

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

The Gay Science, section 108

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!