In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.