No victor believes in chance.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.