All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence