"All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle."

"And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."

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

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

"When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed."

"While I was musing the fire burned."

"It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty."

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."

"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."