The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie