It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again