One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.