Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?