I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.