When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.