You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.