Virtue Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One is punished best for one's virtues.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time than someone else”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those living near: there is the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche