The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.