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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

…If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone

The lie is a condition of life.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world;

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.