He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.
How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.
Morality in Europe today is herd-morality
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.