Friedrich Nietzsche

When marrying, ask yourself: do you believe you will enjoy talking with this person into your old age?

The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.