Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Success has always been a great liar.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
The doer alone learneth.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.