I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

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

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.