Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.