The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.