Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.