Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.