Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

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

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.