“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”

“A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time. So does it accord with good sleep.”

“And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman’s breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.”

“They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person.”

“How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.”

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”