Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Thinking evil is making evil.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!