The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

The noble soul reveres itself

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.