Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.