There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again