It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.
Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.