Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.