Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.