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

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?