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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.