It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

Every word is a prejudice.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.