But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.