The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.