Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.