The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.