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No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.