A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.