When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.