One is punished best for one's virtues.

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

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.