"Chastity is a virtue with some, but..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.”

“Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.”

“Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.”

“At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.”

“Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.”

“My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.”

“It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.”

“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”

“Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.”