Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'