Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.