Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.