I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.