People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.