Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.