“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”

“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.”

“Poverty is a state whose feature is generosity.”

“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”

“Well, Mr. Antichrist, that’s all for the present!”

“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. Indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”