If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.