I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.