Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

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