There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.