One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.