Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Plato was a bore.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?