Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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.