A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

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.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche