"I do not mean to moralise but..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.”

“Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.”

“A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.”

“If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.”

“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”

“He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.”

“The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.”

“You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.”

“Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.”