Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.