"Morality, insofar as it condemns for its own sake, and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity – an idios…"

"Many a man is too proud to beg, and too poor to starve."

"When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality."

"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really ought to have known before beginning."

"The common herd of humanity is nothing more than a collection of failures and abortions."