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

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.