One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

Thinking evil is making evil.