I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

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

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.