A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.