Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.