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

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Respectability offends my taste.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.