Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.