The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.