“Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.”

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

“Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.”

“It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.”

“Morality negates life.”