Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.