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

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.