"A good aphorism is too hard for..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!”

“If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.”

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

“[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.”

“Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.”

“Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.”

“Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.”

“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”