The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.