It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.