And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.