To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.