To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
