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

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.