It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.