The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship |
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. |
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity |
The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity. |
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better." |
The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive |
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation |
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. |
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species. |
The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. |
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. |
The doer alone learneth. |
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man. |
The English are the nation of consummate cant. |
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. |