Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.