I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.