Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.