A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.