Every profound spirit needs a mask.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.