Originality provokes originality.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.