Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.