When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.