It is probable that there are no pure races, but only races which have become purified, and even these are extremely rare. 253
How many married men have some morning awakened to the fact that their young wife is dull, although she thinks quite the contrary! not to speak of those wives whose flesh is willing but whose intellect is weak! 255
Could there be anything more repugnant than the sentimentality which is shown to plants and animals—and this on the part of a creature who from the very beginning has made such ravages among them as their most ferocious enemy—and who ends by even claiming affectionate feelings from his weakened and mutilated victims! Before this kind of "nature" man must above all be serious, if he is any sort of a thinking being. 258
Among cowards it is thought bad form to say anything against bravery, for any expression of this kind would give rise to some contempt; and unfeeling people are irritated when anything is said against pity. 259
It is the most sensual men who find it necessary to avoid women and to torture their bodies. 261
A young man can be most surely corrupted when he is taught to value the like-minded more highly than the differently minded. 262
The general knowledge of mankind has been furthered to a greater extent by fear than by love. 267
The sum-total of those internal movements which come naturally to men, and which they can consequently set in motion readily and gracefully, is called the soul—men are looked upon as void of soul when they let it be seen that their inward emotions are difficult and painful to them. 268
All rules have this effect: they distract our attention from the fundamental aim of the rule, and make us more thoughtless. 273