What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.