But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

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

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.