People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Confidence Quotes, Gifts Quotes, Trust Quotes

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned...

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned...

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be...

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be...

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into...

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into...

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is...

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is...

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman,...

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman,...

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures...

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures...

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I...

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I...

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make...

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make...

Lift up your hearts, you good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good...

Lift up your hearts, you good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good...

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my...

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and...

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and...

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed the deed is everything.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed the deed is everything.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit,...

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the...

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the...