My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.