A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

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

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.