I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!