People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.