Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.