It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.