"Sleep is no mean art...." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.”

“Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.”

“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?”

“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”

“I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.”

“I have no trouble sleeping.”

“Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.”

“Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.”

“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”