What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.