Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.