It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.