The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Sleep is no mean art.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

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

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.