Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.