Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.