Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.