The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.