The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Respectability offends my taste.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.