When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.