We can destroy only as creators

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.