Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Oh! Your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! As much as ye give to your friend, will I give even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I have thought of you much, and have shared with you in thought much that has been elevating, stirring, and gay, so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Take care, ye philosophers and friends of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of suffering "for the truth's sake"! even in your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One in three all friends are: Brothers in distress, equals facing rivals, free men - facing death!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share