But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently no longer takes any share in his individual phenomenon, because in him knowledge has, as it were, burnt up and consumed the will, so that no will, thus no desire for individual existence, remains in him any more.

For the longer to have had to rack your brains for something the more firmly will is stay once you have got it.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.