Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].