Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.