To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.