We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.