Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.