"The two great narcotics of Europe, alcohol and Christianity."

"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"The common herd of humanity is nothing more than a collection of failures and abortions."

"And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony."