Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.