He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.