The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.