Quotes

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

Whoever has ever built a new heaven found the strength for it only in his own hell.

The most common lie is the one with which a man deceives himself.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

We people are like birds that always get caught in the same nets and still will not listen.

The reasonable keep getting better, while the unreasonable either stay as they were or, what is more likely, if they do not improve, keep getting worse.

As long as there is darkness, there will be dawn!

Freedom, complete freedom, is a dream, a dream that is most often not destined to come true, but wretched is everyone who has never dreamed it.

Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined.

This world is a tyrant even to a tyrant, let alone to a noble soul!

Everyone is born to die but once; honour and shame live forever!