The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".