You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.