Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.