Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

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