We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.