83.Instinct. - When the house is on fire one forgets even the dinner. - Yes, but one recovers it from among the ashes.

85. The same emotions are in man and woman, but in different tempo; on that account men and women never cease to misunderstand each other.

92. Who has not, at one time or another - sacrificed himself for the sake of his good name.

94. The maturity of man - that means, to have reacquired the seriousness of a child at play.

97. What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.

106. By means of music the very passions enjoy themselves.

118. There is an innocence of admiration: it is possessed by him to whom it has not occurred that he himself may be admired some day.

121. It is a curious thing thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better.

128. The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

146. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he therby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

153. What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

154. Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

157. The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.

160. One no longer loves one's knowledge sufficiently after one has communicated it.

166. One may indeed lie with the mouth; but with the accompanying grimmace one nevertheless tells the truth.

169. To talk much about oneself may also be a means of concealing oneself.

175. One love's ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

177. With regard to what "truthfullness" is, perhaps nobody has ever been sufficiently truthful.

185. "I dislike him" - Why? - "I am not a match for him" - Did anyone ever answer so?