Avoid the unhappy and unlucky.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Enjoy life.

This is not a dress rehearsal.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Man is the cruelest animal.