We mustn't be subjected to anything, not even to good. A so-called good, to which you succumb, loses the ethycal character. It doesn't become bad in itself, but by being dominated it can have some bad consequences. Every shape of intoxication is is unhealthy, it makes no difference if alcohol or morphine or idealism.
We mustn't consider good and evil as two opposites.
It's wonderful to fight with persuasion, embracing life and living passionately. Losing elegantly and winning daringly.
Life is too short to get annoyed over a single silly mistake.
They think I'm mad because I'm not willing to sell my days for gold... and I think them crazy because they think my days may have a price.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Servitude, in many cases, is not a master's violence, but a servant's temptation.
Men appreciate and measure but the fortune of others. Their own, never.
I do not want to suffer, I don't have of suffering a cristian idea. They tell us that suffering lifts the spirit up; but no, suffering is a painful thing and that's it, and it doesn't lift anything up. And so I am not afraid of suffering. Because when it comes to death, I, that in all things I believe to be a moderate, I am an absolute radical. If we have a right to life, we also have a right to death. It's up to us, and we must have recognized the right of choosing the when and how of our death.
I know many scoundrels who aren't moralists, but I know of no moralists who aren't scoundrels.
There's no hope without fear, or fear without hope.