Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.