As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

"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."

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.