It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.