Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on...
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.
If, in all that you wish to do, you begin by asking yourself: am I certain that I would wish to do this an infinite number of times? This should be for you the most solid centre of gravity . . . My do...
Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.
A thinking man never be a party man.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.