It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?