What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

You flow for me almost too violently, fountain of pleasure. And often you empty the cup again by wanting to fill it.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.