Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

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

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.