Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.