- People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- There are no facts, only interpretations.
- No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
- No victor believes in chance.
- It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- I counsel you, my friends: Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
- God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
- Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
- What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame
- When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
- All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
- What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
- A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
- The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
- What is the mark of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
- We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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