The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.