He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.