Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.