What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

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!

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.