The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.