I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.