Beyond Good and Evil is aphoristic brilliance containing many of Nietzsche's most famous ideas. For those interested in Nietzsche there is no better place to start than this book. Nietzsche like Plato and unlike most philosophers really knew how to write. His writing is brilliant, original, and his style has no peer. Kaufmann produces English that is without peer in his translation of Nietzsche's works.
Maturity is the recovery of the seriousness of a child at play.
Thus spake Zarathustra, and left his cave, glowing and strong, like a morning sun which cometh from dark mountains. One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm.