You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.