Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!