Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.