There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

We are all afraid of the truth.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.