Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science

Book three

163 After a great victory.– What is best about a great victory is that it liberates the victor from the fear of defeat. “Why not be defeated some time, too?., he says to himself; “Now I am rich enough for that..

166 Always in our company.- Whatever in nature and in history is of my own kind, speaks to me, spurs me on, and cormforts me; the rest I do not hear or forget right away. We are always only in our own company.

179 Thoughts.– Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings-always darker, emptier. and simpler.