Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.