We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

To have and to want more that is life.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.