Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.