Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.