Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.