Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.