One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.