To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.