One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!