The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.