A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

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.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.