One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

Existence begins in every instant.