Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.