Truths Are Illlusions Which We

To See Others Suffer Does One Good, To Make Others Suffer Even More: This Is A Hard Saying But An Ancient, Mighty, Human, All-too-human Principle [....] Without Cruelty There Is No Festival.

The Aphorism, The Apothegm, In Which I Am The First Among The Germans To Be A Master, Are The Forms Of “eternity”; It Is My Ambition To Say In Ten Sentences What Everyone Else Says In A Book — What Everyone Else Does Not Say In A Book.

And If Ye Cannot Be Saints Of Knowledge, Then, I Pray You, Be At Least Its Warriors. They Are The Companions And Forerunners Of Such Saintship.

If You Have An Enemy, Do Not Requite Him Evil With Good, For That Would Put Him To Shame. Rather Prove That He Did You Some Good.

The Bite Of Conscience, Like The Bite Of A Dog Into A Stone, Is A Stupidity.