The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.