“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.”

“The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.”

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!”

“The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!”

“Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.”

“What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.”

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”