He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.