The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.