The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.