In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.