The Gay Science, section 108

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.