Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.