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

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.