But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.