Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

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

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.