But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.