We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.