Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.