In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.