Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.