“I see that you are indifferent about money, which is a characteristic rather of those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit which is common to them and all men. And hence they are very bad company, for they can talk about nothing but the praises of wealth.” Republic

All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well. Book IV

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. The Will to Power

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. The Portrait of Mr. W. H.