It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.