Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.