Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.