What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.