One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

On every parable you ride to every truth.