"We grow hostile to many an artist..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.”

“I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.”

“He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.”

“Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.”

“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”

“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”

“You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.”