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

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.