Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

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.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.