Every profound spirit needs a mask.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Respectability offends my taste.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.