You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her