'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.