One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.