The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.