You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.