One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise –.
Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.