If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.