There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.