When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.