Interesting quotes from "Why I am so wise" by Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps one of the most thought provoking books ever. Every line is full of ideas that one has to stop reading and start thinking about the idea. For example it took me hours to figure out the meaning of the following.

For pay heed to this: it was in the years of my lowest vitality that i ceased to be a pessimist: the instinct for self recovery forbade to me a philosophy of indigence and discouragement.

This one is also particularly touches the heart.

My reproach towards those who practice pity is that shame, reverence, a delicate feeling from distance easily eludes them, that pity instantly smells of mob and is so like bad manners as to be mistaken for them- that the hands of pity can under certain circumstances intrude downright destructively into a great destiny, into a solitariness where wounds are nursed, into a privilege for great guilt.

The following touches a topic which has been topic of thought. It so very well shows how important it is to vent the feelings. 

It also seems to me that the rudest word, the rudest letter are more good-natured, more honest than silence. Those who keep silent almost always lack subtlety and politeness of heart; silence is an objection, swallowing down necessarily produces bad character- it even ruins the stomach.