What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.