The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.