Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.