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And no one is such a LIAR as the indignant man.
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
It cannot be helped: the sentiment of surrender, of sacrifice for one's neighbour,
67. Love to one only is a barbarity, for it is exercised at the expense of all others.
72. It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
76. Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.
79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
146. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
and even in the brightest moments of our waking life, we are ruled to some extent by the nature of our dreams.
It is to be INFERRED that there are countless dark bodies near the sun—such as we shall never see.
the self-glorification and self-conceitedness of the learned man is now everywhere in full bloom,
People have always to be born to a high station, or, more definitely, they have to be BRED for it:
the lingering eye which rarely admires, rarely looks up, rarely loves...
He suffers, and his vanity wants him only "to suffer with his fellows."
we have access above all to the labyrinth of imperfect civilizations,
"in my opinion man is an agreeable, brave, inventive animal, that has not his equal upon earth, he makes his way even through all labyrinths.
