Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.