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

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

All words are prejudices.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!