A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.