Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.
We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?
Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so.
What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.