"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.