Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.